The Strategic Defense Initiative : Ronald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the Nuclear and Space Talks, 1981-1988 / Ralph L. Dietl.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781498565660
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- Reagan, Ronald
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Reagan, Ronald
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Cold War
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- Nuclear arms control
- Diplomacy -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Foreign relations
- Initiative de défense stratégique
- Guerre froide
- URSS -- Relations extérieures -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- URSS
- Armes nucléaires -- Contrôle
- Diplomatie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
- Diplomacy
- Diplomatic relations
- Nuclear arms control
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- 1900-1999
- 358.1/74 23
- UG743 .D54 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Genesis of the SDI Project, 1981-83 -- The Return from the Abyss: The Evolution of the NST Framework -- SDI: The Conceptual Battle -- SDI: Implementation versus Abrogation -- Cold Storage: The Delinking of the Nuclear and Space Talks -- Conclusion: The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Cold War Endgame.
The Nuclear and Space Talks revolutionized arms control. The Cold War endgame commenced with the umbrella negotiations' that linked START and INF negotiations to a regulation on the weaponization of space. This volume reveals a US grand strategy to replace deterrence with a collective security order. An entente of the superpowers was needed to transform bipolarity. The US planned the replacement of mutually assured destruction by mutually assured security. A global astrodome was to protect a nuclear disarmed world. The Franco-German special relationship in European affairs had to be amended by a US-SU special relationship to replace classic bloc politics. The Reagan Administration planned a global zero agenda, a joint development of a global protective system and a creation of a Common House of Europe. In brief, the superpowers prepared 'the velvet revolution' that eliminated the Cold War structures. Neither containment nor convergence offers a valid explanation of the Cold War endgame. Co-creation is the key to decipher the end of the Cold War. NATO Europe challenged the transformation of bipolarity. The European NWS resisted to a multilateralization of strategic arms control. In Europe the classic Cold War thinking survived the fall of the Iron Curtain. European conservatism contributed to the geopolitical catastrophe of the first order: the downfall of the Soviet Union. The Reagan Administration developed a Grand Strategy to end the Cold War. The US-SU co-creation of an astrodome was meant to ease a global zero agenda. A global collective security structure under the United Nations was to replace deterrence. The superpower project collapsed due to the penetration of US decision-making by NATO Allies. The European NWS totally objected to a multilateralization of strategic arms control to preserve their relative position in the international system. -- Publisher's website.
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