Paradoxes of peace : German peace movements since 1945
著者
書誌事項
Paradoxes of peace : German peace movements since 1945
（Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany）
University of Michigan Press, c1996
大学図書館所蔵 全10件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- The 1950s : burning issues but stunted protest
- The 1960s : peace protest in competition with other issues
- The 1970s : new political opportunities and a new ideological resource for the 1980s movement
- The 1980s : strength and diversity through ideological resources and organizational innovation
- Decline or renewal? The peace movement
- The peace movement since unification
- Conclusions
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Given the militarism of the Empire and Nazi Germany, why did postwar West Germany experience massive waves of peace protest in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s? How have postwar peace movements shaped German political culture? Will the cultural norms that frown on the use of military force constrain foreign policy in the new, unified, Germany? In Paradoxes of Peace, Alice Holmes Cooper traces the evolution of peace movements in West Germany (1945-90) and in united Germany since 1990. Cooper examines the domestic and international constellations that gave rise to the peace movements, the sources of their multi-faceted ideologies and participants, and their organizational structures and strategies. The author then investigates the peace movement's response to the challenges of the post-Cold War world.
Whereas previous work on German peace movements has concentrated on one period of mobilization or on elite security-policy debates, this comprehensive study examines all phases of mobilization since 1945, taking into account the full spectrum of actors, movement organization and strategy, and the broad political, social, and economic environments spawning peace protest. Arguing that theories of resource mobilization, changes in values, and crises of modernity are insufficient to explain peace movements, Paradoxes of Peace tailors a "political process" approach to postwar German movements. It investigates the political opportunities--the changing domestic and international constellation--which most favored peace mobilization since 1945. It examines the process through which the peace movement transformed popular consciousness and created a peace constituency. It analyzes how German peace movements gradually built an indispensable organizational infrastructure autonomous from parties and other social institutions. Cooper argues that the convergence of these factors determined the movement's capacity to mobilize and have political impact and allowed these to grow over time.
Alice Holmes Cooper is Assistant Professor of Government, University of Virginia.
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