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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Luc-André Brunet Copyright 2023
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s

Luc-André Brunet　

Part 1: SDI and the Superpowers

2. Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative

James Graham Wilson

3. The Soviet Response to the Strategic Defense Initiative

Svetlana Savranskaya　

Part 2: Government Decision-making behind SDI Participation

4. Britain, SDI and the United States, 1983-6: A Guarded Relationship

Edoardo Andreoni

5. Germany and SDI, 1983-86: Anchoring US Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Westbindung for an Offence-Defence Future

Andreas Lutsch　

6. Italy and the SDI Project: Envisioning a Technological Breakthrough for the Whole Alliance?

Marilena Gala　

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

Ilaria Parisi　

8. Canada’s "Polite No" to the SDI: A Question of Sovereignty?

Luc-André Brunet　

9. The Netherlands and SDI, 1983-87: We Have to Do the Research

Ruud van Dijk　

10. Danish and Norwegian Responses to the SDI: Between Low-Voiced Scepticism and Outspoken Opposition

Jakob Linnet Schmidt　

Part 4: Civil Society and the Peace Movement

11. The SDI: A Further Challenge for the US Anti-Nuclear Movement?

Angela Santese　

12. SDI as a Contested Imaginary in British Culture and Society: ‘Winning in Space’

Jonathan Hogg　

13. British and International Peace Campaigning against the Strategic Defence Initiative: Folly’s Comet

Patrick Burke

14. Star Wars: Views from the Commentariat

Sir Lawrence Freedman

Biography

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.

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