1st Edition

The Peace Movements in Europe and the United States

Edited By Werner Kaltefleiter, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Copyright 1985
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

In the early 1980s the peace movements in most of the Western countries captured public attention as never before. This largely resulted from NATO’s decision in 1979 to deploy new medium range missiles in Europe in 1983 if negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit this type of weapon system failed. The main purpose of the peace movements in Europe was to put pressure on their respective... Read more

Acknowledgement.  Introduction Werner Kaltefleiter  1. The Peace Movement in Sweden Jan Andersson and Kent Lindkvist  2. The Peace Movement in Norway Sten Sparre Nilson  3. The Peace Movement in the Netherlands N.H. Serry  4. The Development of the Peace Movement in Britain Peter Byrd  5. The West German Peace Movement: A Profile Hartmut Grewe  6. The Peace Movement in France Joel-Francois Dumont  7. The Peace Movement in Italy Sergio A. Rossi and Virgilio Ilari  8. The Peace Movement in the United States James Finn  9. The US Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Facts and Fallacies Jacquelyn K. Davis  10. Towards a Comparative Analysis of the Peace Movements Werner Kaltefleiter and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff.  Notes on Contributors.  Index.

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Werner Kaltefleiter, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff