Author : Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN :
Author : Rebecca S. Bjork
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1992-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791496783
Through an analysis of the language and persuasive strategies used by the Reagan and Bush administrations in selling the SDI program to the Congress and the American public, Bjork takes a fresh approach to the study of U.S. foreign policy. She focuses on the shared meanings and understandings of policy as they are created through sociocultural interaction. Using Kenneth Burke's philosophy and critical method of dramatism as a theoretical framework, she shows how Reagan's SDI program appealed symbolically to a nostalgic sense of American history, replete with powerful images of American innocence and technological ingenuity in the face of difficult obstacles. Bjork concludes that the program has been shielded from criticism, has achieved symbolic and bureaucratic momentum, and serves to reinforce the isolation felt by ordinary American citizens from access to decisions over life and death issues.
Author : Paul E. Gallis
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN :
En summarisk analyse af strategiske forhold i forbindelse med udviklingen af SDI samt politiske betragtninger over USAs allieredes reaktioner på SDI. Modtaget fra USIS
Author : Hans Binnendijk
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Strategic Defense Initiative
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
ISBN :
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Strategic Defense Initiative
ISBN :
Author : Edward Reiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1992-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521410975
This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).
Author : Ann Byers
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781404202870
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a defense program supported by President Ronald Reagan that aimed to take the arms race to outer space. Though never carried out, and dubbed Star Wars by its critics, it was the nail in the coffin for the Cold War and therefore considered successful, at least in part. This thorough profile takes the reader behind the scenes and helps explain why this initiative still holds interest for leaders looking for new ways to defend the U.S.
