The Nuclear Crisis -

The Nuclear Crisis

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s
Buch | Softcover
392 Seiten
2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-509-1 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
In 1983, more than one million Germans joined to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. This volume survey of the "Euromissiles" crisis as experienced by its various protagonists in Germany, including NATO's strategic maneuvering and the contours of the German protest movement.
In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Christoph Becker-Schaum is the Director of the Green Memory Archive at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.

Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO’s Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s: An Introduction


Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp



Chapter 1. From Helsinki to Afghanistan:

 The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold War


Anja Hanisch



Chapter 2. The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation


Tim Geiger



Chapter 3. SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations


Oliver Bange



Chapter 4. NATO’s Double-Track Decision and East-West German Relations


Hermann Wentker



Chapter 5.Political Parties

Jan Hansen



Chapter 6. Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement


Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger



Chapter 7. Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement


Marianne Zepp



Chapter 8. The Institutional Organization of the Peace Movement


Christoph Becker-Schaum



Chapter 9. The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement


Susanne Schregel



Chapter 10. The Protagonists of the Peace Movement


Saskia Richter



Chapter 11. The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany


Rainer Eckert



Chapter 12. Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace Movement

Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane



Chapter 13. The Churches


Sebastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann



Chapter 14. Trade Unions

Dietmar Süß



Chapter 15. The Police

Michael Sturm



Chapter 16. “Men Build Rockets”: The Women's Peace Movement

Reinhild Kreis



Chapter 17. Civil Defense: Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in Politics and Science


Claudia Kemper



Chapter 18. Nuclear Doomsday Scenarios in Film, Literature, and Music


Philipp Baur



Chapter 19. A Triumph of Disarmament? The 1980s and the International Political System


Florian Pressler



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Protest, Culture & Society
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-78920-509-3 / 1789205093
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-509-1 / 9781789205091
Zustand Neuware
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