NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative (eBook, ePUB)

A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme
Redaktion: Brunet, Luc-André

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000642636
• Artikelnr.: 64281217

Autorenporträt

Luc-André Brunet is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History, The Open University, and Co-Director of the Peace and Security Project at LSE IDEAS, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s
Part 1: SDI and the Superpowers
2. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative
3. The Soviet Response to the Strategic Defense Initiative
Part 2: Government Decision-making behind SDI Participation
4. Britain
SDI and the United States
1983-6: A Guarded Relationship
5. Germany and SDI
1983-86: Anchoring US Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Westbindung for an Offence-Defence Future
6. Italy and the SDI Project: Envisioning a Technological Breakthrough for the Whole Alliance?
Part 3: NATO Governments' Rejection of SDI
7. France's Reaction Towards the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1986): Transforming a Strategic Threat into a Technological Opportunity
8. Canada's "Polite No" to the SDI: A Question of Sovereignty?
9. The Netherlands and SDI
1983-87: We Have to Do the Research
10. Danish and Norwegian Responses to the SDI: Between Low-Voiced Scepticism and Outspoken Opposition
Part 4: Civil Society and the Peace Movement
11. The SDI: A Further Challenge for the US Anti-Nuclear Movement?
12. SDI as a Contested Imaginary in British Culture and Society: 'Winning in Space'
13. British and International Peace Campaigning against the Strategic Defence Initiative: Folly's Comet
14. Star Wars: Views from the Commentariat