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NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme

NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Luc-André Brunet
May 27, 2024

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 ...

Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War A Transnational History

Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Wolfgang Mueller, Peter Svik
May 27, 2024

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. Although the consequences of globalization have received ample attention in both academia and the public discourse, only limited attention has so far been given to the factors that ...

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s: The Opening Up

1st Edition

By Aleksandra Komornicka
September 20, 2023

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s, including détente in the Cold War, western European ...

Britain, the US and China’s Anti-Soviet Stance in the Cold War Containment and Trade, 1977-1980

Britain, the US and China’s Anti-Soviet Stance in the Cold War: Containment and Trade, 1977-1980

1st Edition

By Bruno Pierri
August 04, 2023

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s. Trade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Ideology ...

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82

1st Edition

By John Walker
May 05, 2023

This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test ban treaty would impact on the reliability and...

European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West National Strategies in the Long 1970s

European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West: National Strategies in the Long 1970s

1st Edition

Edited By Angela Romano, Federico Romero
August 01, 2022

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries’ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s. The book focuses on a time when the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe banked their hopes for prosperity and stability on enhanced ...

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa: A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994

1st Edition

By Flavia Gasbarri
December 13, 2021

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however, it documents just one of the many "ends", since the Cold War was a global conflict. This ...

The Greek Junta and the International System A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74

The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74

1st Edition

Edited By Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Effie G. H. Pedaliu
February 21, 2020

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change. The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were ...

Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-83

Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-83

1st Edition

By Daniel Salisbury
February 13, 2020

This book constitutes an original archival history of government secrecy, public relations and the debate surrounding nuclear weapons in Britain from 1970 to 1983. The book contrasts the secrecy and near-silence of the Heath, Wilson and Callaghan governments on nuclear issues in the 1970s with the ...

America and Romania in the Cold War A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80

America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80

1st Edition

By Paschalis Pechlivanis
April 24, 2019

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu’s Romania from 1969 to 1980. Drawing from multi-archival research from both US and Romanian sources, this is the first ...

Origins of the North Korean Garrison State The People’s Army and the Korean War

Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War

1st Edition

By Youngjun Kim
January 03, 2019

This book investigates the origins of the North Korean garrison state by examining the development of the Korean People’s Army and the legacies of the Korean War. Despite its significance, there are very few books on the Korean People’s Army with North Korean primary sources being difficult to ...

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82

1st Edition

By Dino Knudsen
September 10, 2018

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, ...

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