"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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Acknowledgements
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 Koreas Anti-Nuclear Paradox, 1949-1976
Soon-Ok Shin
Afterword: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism
Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi and Alicia Sanders-Zakre
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-Queens 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.
