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03482aam a2200349Ki 4500 001 5B04BE44F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20181204010734 008 180522s2018 mdu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1498565654 020 $a 9781498565653 035 $a (OCoLC)1036253849 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d MNG $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d PAU $d YDXIT $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a UG743 D54 2018 100 1 $a Dietl, Ralph, $e author. 245 14 $a The Strategic Defense Initiative : $b Ronald Reagan, NATO Europe, and the Nuclear and Space Talks, 1981-1988 / $c Ralph L. Dietl. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Lexington Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xx, 181 pages : $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. -- $c Publisher's website. 650 0 $a Strategic Defense Initiative $x History. 650 0 $a Diplomacy $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations. 600 10 $a Reagan, Ronald. 600 17 $a Reagan, Ronald. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00036392 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781498565660 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190202012313.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B04BE44F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search