LEADER 03510nam 2200433 450 001 9910793108203321 005 20191231080308.0 010 $a1-4985-6566-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000006998096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5492888 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006998096 100 $a20181117d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe strategic defense initiative $eRonald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the nuclear and space talks, 1981-1988 /$fRalph L. Dietl 210 1$aLanham :$cLexington Books,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 181 pages) 311 $a1-4985-6565-4 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe Nuclear and Space Talks revolutionized arms control. The Cold War endgame commenced with the umbrella negotiations' that linked START and INF negotiations to a regulation on the weaponization of space. This volume reveals a US grand strategy to replace deterrence with a collective security order. An entente of the superpowers was needed to transform bipolarity. The US planned the replacement of mutually assured destruction by mutually assured security. A global astrodome was to protect a nuclear disarmed world. The Franco-German special relationship in European affairs had to be amended by a US-SU special relationship to replace classic bloc politics. The Reagan Administration planned a global zero agenda, a joint development of a global protective system and a creation of a Common House of Europe. In brief, the superpowers prepared 'the velvet revolution' that eliminated the Cold War structures. Neither containment nor convergence offers a valid explanation of the Cold War endgame. Co-creation is the key to decipher the end of the Cold War. NATO Europe challenged the transformation of bipolarity. The European NWS resisted to a multilateralization of strategic arms control. In Europe the classic Cold War thinking survived the fall of the Iron Curtain. European conservatism contributed to the geopolitical catastrophe of the first order: the downfall of the Soviet Union. The Reagan Administration developed a Grand Strategy to end the Cold War. The US-SU co-creation of an astrodome was meant to ease a global zero agenda. A global collective security structure under the United Nations was to replace deterrence. The superpower project collapsed due to the penetration of US decision-making by NATO Allies. The European NWS totally objected to a multilateralization of strategic arms control to preserve their relative position in the international system. --$cPublisher's website. 606 $aStrategic Defense Initiative$xHistory 606 $aDiplomacy$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aStrategic Defense Initiative$xHistory. 615 0$aDiplomacy$xHistory 676 $a358.17409 700 $aDietl$b Ralph$01562434 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793108203321 996 $aThe strategic defense initiative$93830044 997 $aUNINA