Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955 / / Andrew M. Johnston
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| Autore: |
Johnston Andrew M. <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955 / / Andrew M. Johnston
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (X, 329 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 355.02/17 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nuclear weapons - Europe |
| Nuclear warfare | |
| Deterrence (Strategy) | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : the persistence of nuclear first-use -- Ch. 1. Culture, war, empire -- Ch. 2. The persistence of the old regime : British, French, and American strategic thinking before 1949 -- Ch. 3. "Disembodied military planning" : the political-economy of strategy, 1949-50 -- Ch. 4. Mind the gap : the paper divisions and cardboard wings of the Lisbon force goals -- Ch. 5. Strategies of perpheralism : France, Britain, and the American new look -- Ch. 6. Two cultures of massive retaliation : neo-isolationism and the idealism of John Foster Dulles -- Ch. 7. Hegemony versus multilateralism : nuclear sharing and NATO's search for cohesion -- Ch. 8. "Our plans might not be purely defensive" : leading NATO into the nuclear era -- Conclusion : what does culture tell us about NATO nuclear strategy that we were afraid to ask? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Johnston argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural 'socialization', by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington. Building a bridge between theory and practice, this book examines the usefulness of cultural theory in international history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955 |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36777-X |
| 9786611367770 | |
| 1-4039-7693-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827079603321 |
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