NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative a transatlantic history of the Star Wars programme / edited by Luc-Andr©♭ Brunet.
| Other author | Brunet, Luc-Andr©♭. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s / Luc-Andr©♭ Brunet -- Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative / James Graham Wilson -- The Soviet response to the Strategic Defense Initiative / Svetlana Savranskaya -- Britain, SDI and the United States, 1983-6 : a guarded relationship / Edoardo Andreoni -- Germany and SDI, 1983-86 : anchoring US extended nuclear deterrence and Westbindung for an offence-defence future / Andreas Lutsch -- Italy and the SDI project : envisioning a technological breakthrough for the whole alliance? / Marilena Gala -- France's reaction towards the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1986) : transforming a strategic threat into a technological opportunity / Ilaria Parisi -- Canada's "polite no" to the SDI : a question of sovereignty? / Luc-Andr©♭ Brunet -- The Netherlands and SDI, 1983-87 : we have to do the research / Ruud van Dijk -- Danish and Norwegian responses to the SDI : between low-voiced scepticism and outspoken opposition / Jakob Linnet Schmidt -- The SDI : a further challenge for the US anti-nuclear movement? / Angela Santese -- SDI as a contested imaginary in British culture and society : 'winning in space' / Jonathan Hogg -- British and international peace campaigning against the Strategic Defence Initiative : Folly's comet / Patrick Burke -- Star Wars : views from the commentariat / Sir Lawrence Freedman. |
| Abstract | "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. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have explored the origins of the American programme and the role it may have played in ending the Cold War, this volume breaks new ground by considering the impact of the SDI on transatlantic relations in the 1980s. Based on newly available archival sources, this volume re-evaluates the responses of eight NATO member-state governments, as well as the Soviet leadership, to the SDI. In addition to looking at 'top-down' governmental reactions, the volume also explores the 'bottom-up' response to the SDI of civil society and peace activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume examines how the American initiative - derisively named 'Star Wars' by its detractors - provoked a crisis in relations with its allies during the final decade of the Cold War and how those tensions within NATO were ultimately resolved. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, strategic studies, foreign policy and international history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780367612184 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022010601 |
| ISBN | 9781000642636 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9780367617509 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |