The strategic defense initiative
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The strategic defense initiative
(Cambridge studies in international relations, 23)
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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  Kyoto
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Conception: 1. Theory
- 2. The history of strategic defence in the USA
- 3. The 'SDI' speech
- Part II. Construction: 1983-1985: 4. Contexts
- 5. Interest groups
- 6. The politics of influence
- Part III. Consolidation: 1985-1988: 7. Contexts and constituencies
- 8. Interest and influence
- 9. Early deployment?
- Part IV. Contexts and Conditions: 10. Europe
- 11. Military economy
- 12. The culture of 'Star Wars'
- 13. The selling of SDI
- Part V. Conclusions: 14. Into the 1990s
- 15. The causes of SDI
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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