Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi (Herausgeber)

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330 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-961-2 (ISBN)

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Historical consensus views the Euromissile Crisis of the early 1980s as “the last battle of the Cold War.” In this illuminating re-examination of this multifaceted campaign, Beyond the Euromissile Crisis broadens our understanding of anti-nuclear activism, highlighting how it remains a truly global phenomenon. Investigating the motivations, forms of action, and accomplishments of activists from South Africa, Polynesia, Brazil and elsewhere, this volume offers new ways of conceptualizing the chronology of anti-nuclear protest.

Luc-André Brunet is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History at The Open University and Co-Director of the Peace and Security Project at LSE IDEAS. The Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism,’ he is also a co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s University Press book series on Global Nuclear Histories. His recent publications include NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme (Routledge, 2022), and a forthcoming book on Canada, the global nuclear order, and the end of the Cold War.

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Introduction: Globalising the History of Anti-Nuclear Activism

Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi

Part I: Anti-Nuclear Politics in the Shadow of East-West Confrontation

Chapter 1. Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movements: Local and Transnational Characteristics of Peace Protest in Hiroshima

MakikoTakemoto

Chapter 2. The Dutch Interchurch Peace Council and the Anti-Nuclear Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s

Ruud van Dijk

Chapter 3. Italian Epistemic Communities in the Arms Control Field. The Case of USPID

Lodovica Clavarino

Chapter 4. The Soviet Peace Committee and ‘Détentefrom Below’ in the 1980s

Irina Gordeeva

Part II: Coopting and Adopting Anti-Nuclear Rhetoric: Three Leaders

Chapter 5. Olof Palme and the Peace Movements in Sweden in the Late Cold War Period

Thomas Jonter

Chapter 6. A Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Balkans During the 1980s: A Bid for Multilateral Cooperation?

Dionysios Chourchoulis

Chapter 7. David Lange: The Anti-Nuclear Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-1989

Exequiel Lacovsky

Part III: Nuclear Colonialism, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Nuclear Activism

Chapter 8. Pacifism and Anti-Nuclear Protest in Polynesia at the End of the Cold War

Alexis Vrignon

Chapter 9. Abdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa

Anna-Mart van Wyk

Chapter 10. The Dark Mirror of Latin America and the Spanish anti-NATO Movements in the Late Cold War

Giulia Quaggio

Part IV: Rising Nuclear Powers

Chapter 11. Resistance and Reappropriation: Anti-Nuclear & Peace Movements in India

Kapil Patil

Chapter 12. The Opposition to the Brazilian Nuclear Programme, 1972-1988

Carlo Patti

Chapter 13. North Korea’s Anti-Nuclear Paradox, 1949-1976

Soon-Ok Shin

Afterword: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism

Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi and Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	Protest, Culture & Society
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80539-961-6 / 1805399616
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-961-2 / 9781805399612
Zustand	Neuware