Description: The Strategic Defense InitiativeRonald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the Nuclear and Space Talks, 1981?1988 Author(s): Ralph L. Dietl Format: Hardback Publisher: Lexington Books, United States Imprint: Lexington Books ISBN-13: 9781498565653, 978-1498565653 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: The Strategic Defense Initiative
Number of Pages: 202 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Strategic Defense Initiative: Ronald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the Nuclear and Space Talks, 1981-1988
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: History
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Weight: 599 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Ralph L. Dietl
Subject Area: Country
Item Width: 162 mm
Format: Hardcover
