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Titre(s) : NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative [Texte imprimé] : a transatlantic history of the Star Wars programme / edited by Luc-André Brunet
Publication : London : Routledge, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-252 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cold War history
Lien à la collection : Cass series. Cold war history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Brunet, Luc-André. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Initiative de défense stratégique
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- Pays de l'OTAN -- 1970-....
Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367612184. - ISBN 0367612186. - ISBN 9780367617509. - ISBN 0367617501. -
ISBN 9780367617509 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000642636 (erroné) (ePub ebook). - ISBN 9781000642605
(erroné) (PDF ebook). - ISBN 9781003104674 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470874315
Notice n° :
FRBNF47087431
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s
/ Luc-André 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-André 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.
