Becker-Schaum / Gassert / Klimke The Nuclear Crisis

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-268-5
Verlag: Berghahn
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 392 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker-Schaum, Christoph

Gassert, Philipp

Klimke, Martin

Mausbach, Wilfried

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Su¨ß

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

Über Autor(innen)

Klimke, Martin
Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the US, 1962–1972 (2010) and co-author of A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany (2010).

Gassert, Philipp
Philipp Gassert is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim and a past deputy director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. His publications include America’s Wars (co-written with Alexander Emmerich, 2015).

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

Mausbach, Wilfried
Wilfried Mausbach is the Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University. He is the coeditor of The American Presidency: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2012) and of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s (2010).

Marianne Zepp was Program Director for Contemporary History at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. She is the coeditor of Politische Gewalt in Deutschland: Ursprünge – Ausprägungen – Konsequenzen (Göttingen: Wallstein 2014).

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