Star Wars and European Defence
Author : Hans Gunter Brauch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349086150
Author : Hans Gunter Brauch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349086150
Author : Geoffrey Lee Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349078255
Author : Keith B. Payne
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Strategic Defense Initiative
ISBN :
Surveys current U.S. nuclear policy, and discusses the feasibility of the Star Wars program, arms control, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the morality of the Initiative.
Author : Luc-André Brunet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000642631
This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have explored the origins of the American programme and the role it may have played in ending the Cold War, this volume breaks new ground by considering the impact of the SDI on transatlantic relations in the 1980s. Based on newly available archival sources, this volume re-evaluates the responses of eight NATO member-state governments, as well as the Soviet leadership, to the SDI. In addition to looking at ‘top-down’ governmental reactions, the volume also explores the ‘bottom-up’ response to the SDI of civil society and peace activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume examines how the American initiative – derisively named ‘Star Wars’ by its detractors – provoked a crisis in relations with its allies during the final decade of the Cold War and how those tensions within NATO were ultimately resolved. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, strategic studies, foreign policy and international history.
Author : John R. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2021
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0198855834
Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.
Author : Michael Charlton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in March 1983. The purpose of this book of oral history is to trace the evolution of the US strategic defense debate through interviews with those who shaped and made the crucial decisions leading to the "Star Wars" project.
Author : David Carlton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349069884
Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1429941901
Star Peace (originally published in 1986) is a look at space warfare defense technology by novelist Ben Bova, the author of more than a hundred works of science fiction and fact. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Hugo Meijer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192507745
The armed forces of Europe have undergone a dramatic transformation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces provides the first comprehensive analysis of national security and defence policies, strategies, doctrines, capabilities, and military operations, as well as the alliances and partnerships of European armed forces in response to the security challenges Europe has faced since the end of the cold war. A truly cross-European comparison of the evolution of national defence policies and armed forces remains a notable blind spot in the existing literature. The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces aims to fill this gap with fifty-one contributions on European defence and international security from around the world. The six parts focus on: country-based assessments of the evolution of the national defence policies of Europe's major, medium, and lesser powers since the end of the cold war; the alliances and security partnerships developed by European states to cooperate in the provision of national security; the security challenges faced by European states and their armed forces, ranging from interstate through intra-state and transnational; the national security strategies and doctrines developed in response to these challenges; the military capabilities, and the underlying defence and technological industrial base, brought to bear to support national strategies and doctrines; and, finally, the national or multilateral military operations by European armed forces. The contributions to The Handbook collectively demonstrate the fruitfulness of giving analytical precedence back to the comparative study of national defence policies and armed forces across Europe.
Author : Serena Giusti
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8855268155
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has sent shockwaves across Europe and the world. While the current war is a geopolitical turning point, it remains unclear whether it will trigger a quantum leap forward for European defence policies and for the role of the European Union as a security provider. This Report investigates whether we can expect a further convergence of European strategic cultures, and on collaboration among Europeans to generate the required military capabilities and integrate their forces. Most importantly, it finds that the timely implementation of the EU’s Strategic Compass will be a decisive test to establish whether Europeans are rising to the challenge of taking more responsibility for their security and defence.