The strategic defense initiative : Ronald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the nuclear and space talks, 1981-1988 / / Ralph L. Dietl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815388903321
• Autore: Dietl Ralph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-4985-6566-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 181 pages)
• Disciplina: 358.17409
• Soggetti: Strategic Defense Initiative - History; Diplomacy - History - 20th century; History; United States Foreign relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. --