Beyond the Euromissile Crisis : Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War / Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi.

Intro -- Beyond the Euromissile Crisis -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Anti-nuclear Politics in the Shadow of East-West Confrontation -- Chapter 1. Japanese Anti-nuclear Movements -- Chapter 2. The Dutch Interchurch Peace Council and the Anti-nuclear Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s -- Chapter 3. Italian Epistemic Communities in the Arms Control Field -- Chapter 4. The Soviet Peace Committee and 'D etente from Below' in the 1980s -- Part II. Co-opting and Adopting Anti-nuclear Rhetoric: Three Leaders -- Chapter 5. Olof Palme and the Peace Movements in Sweden in the Late Cold War Period -- Chapter 6. A Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Balkans during the 1980s -- Chapter 7. David Lange -- 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 -- Chapter 9. Abdul Samad Minty and the World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa -- Chapter 10. The Dark Mirror of Latin America and the Spanish Anti-NATO Movements in the Late Cold War -- Part IV. Rising Nuclear Powers -- Chapter 11. Resistance and Reappropriation -- Chapter 12. The Opposition to the Brazilian Nuclear Programme, 1972-88 -- Chapter 13. North Korea's Anti-nuclear Paradox, 1949-76 -- Epilogue -- Filmography -- Index -- Blank Page.

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

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