The Euromissile Crisis and the End of the Cold War (Cold War International History Project) 1st Edition

by Leopoldo Nuti (Editor), Frederic Bozo (Editor), Marie-Pierre Rey (Editor),

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In the late 1970s, new generations of nuclear delivery systems were proposed for deployment across Eastern and Western Europe. The ensuing controversy grew to become a key phase in the late Cold War. This book explores the origins, unfolding, and consequences of that crisis. Contributors from international relations, political science, sociology, and history draw on extensive research in a number of countries, often employing declassified documents from the West and from the newly opened state and party archives of many Soviet bloc countries. They cover especially Soviet-Warsaw Pact relations, U.S.-NATO relations, and the role of public opinion worldwide in relation to the crisis.

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"This book fills a gaping hole in the literature by providing a detailed account of the Euromissile crisis, which decisively shaped European and American politics for nearly a decade. It is at the cutting edge of historical research on the Cold War, relying on new and declassified documents from a wide array of countries and sources. Not only does it cover a wide variety of national perspectives, but it delves into the role of individuals, social movements and public opinion." -- Garret Martin, American University

About the Author

Leopoldo Nuti is director of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies and professor of the history of international relations at the University of Roma Tre. Frederic Bozo is a professor of contemporary history in the Department of European Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III). Marie-Pierre Rey is a professor of Russian and Soviet history and director of the Research Slavic Center, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. Bernd Rother is a researcher and deputy managing director of the Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation.

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Publisher : Stanford University Press; 1st edition (February 18, 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0804792860
ISBN-13 : 978-0804792868
Item Weight : 1.75 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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H. Campbell

Comprehensive Review of Euromissile Crisis

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2020

This collection of fine essays examines the kerfuffle caused by the installation of 572 missiles in western Europe pointed at the Warsaw Pact in the 80s. The motivation for the deployment by NATO of these Pershing II and Gryphon cruise missiles were multiple and not all parties shared the same concerns. A highly publicized reason was the deployment of the SS-20 three warhead mobile launcher missiles by the USSR in the 70s, which later even the Soviets admitted was an error in judgement, in that these weapons gave the West the excuse they had been seeking in any case to modernize their existing theater nuclear arsenal to offset the Russian advantage in conventional arms. The Europeans, especially the West Germans, were eager to solidify the US commitment to defend Europe. Fear of the US "decoupling" its deterrent strategy from European defense was, of course, exaggerated for political reasons. There was never any chance of that happening, but SALT II opened the door to fears that the US might not be so quick to initiate nuclear conflict if their own homeland was not being attacked. Having said that, Carter's waffling on the neutron bomb controversy gave Europe the willies. The US wanted to harden its line against the detente-cheating Soviets, and weapons modernization was the best way to do it. Despite a concerted peace movement in Europe aimed at preventing the missiles deployment, eventually the UK, West Germany and Italy acquiesced to accepting their allotments in 1983. The Netherlands and Belgium, dealing with a more intense domestic reaction, delayed their acceptance, which was voided by the landmark INF Treaty in 1987. The book parses the "crisis" into its constituent parts, starting with examining how Gorbachev's thinking changed after exposure to western leaders thoughts and the enlightened analysis of colleagues like Yakovlev. His one time adamant resistance to Reagan's Fantasy Island SDI melted away when it became obvious that this concept posed no real world threat to the USSR and that his and Reagan's personal goals of complete nuclear disarmament would benefit enormously from the zero-zero option of the INF Treaty that eliminated the 572 missiles, the SS-20s and all the short range tactical nukes that could only destabilize a crisis situation that began as a local conflict. Other essays look at the Warsaw Pact's non-Soviet members appraisal of the Euromissiles, and in fact they shared little of Moscow's enthusiasm for thwarting them, the view form post-Solidarity Poland of the naïveté of the western peace movement advocates parroting Moscow's peacenik drivel, how the leaders of the GDR, who welcomed western protests against nuclearization by the other side, were alarmed at the enthusiastic response of its own citizens for such a double edged sword that could be equally applied to the Warsaw Pact, the attempt by European socialist parties to form a consensus (they couldn't) and how, despite the huge crowds that turned out to protest the missile deployment, western Europeans were more afraid of Soviet intentions that of living under the US nuclear umbrella. Anyone who reads histories like this can only shake their head at the kind of thinking involved in the unthinkable, with armageddon a misunderstanding away from ending life on the planet. Reading books like this after a distance of 20 years provides some perspective but I doubt if enough to try and make total disarmament a reality. We still live under the same spectre that spooked Europe in the 1980s but have become so inured to nukes we proceed to the cliff awaiting instructions to jump first. For any fan of the Cold War and late European history.

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