The Peace Movements In Europe And The United States

Author : Werner Kaltefleiter,Robert L. Pfaltzgraff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000023992

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The Peace Movements in Europe and the United States by Werner Kaltefleiter,Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Pdf

In the early 1980s the peace movements in most of the Western countries captured public attention as never before. This largely resulted from NATO’s decision in 1979 to deploy new medium range missiles in Europe in 1983 if negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit this type of weapon system failed. The main purpose of the peace movements in Europe was to put pressure on their respective governments to accept Soviet proposals in negotiations and not to deploy new missiles. Many large demonstrations and other ‘happenings’ were organised for this purpose. The Soviet and other Warsaw Pact countries accompanied and supported the activities of the peace movements by propaganda and disinformation campaigns. The national peace movements, despite their common aims, had different historic backgrounds and characteristics. This book, originally published in 1985, presents an authoritative review of the peace movements in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the United States. The authors discuss not only the history and organisation of each peace movement, but also their international cooperation, media coverage and prospects for the future.

Author : Werner Kaltefleiter,Robert L. Pfaltzgraff
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : 0312599323

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The Peace Movements in Europe & the United States by Werner Kaltefleiter,Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1559383747

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Peace Movements in Western Europe and the United States by Anonim Pdf

International Social Movement Research

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351318020

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European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance by Walter Laqueur Pdf

This extraordinary compendium concerns the future of the Western alliance and the development of the peace movements in Europe and in the United States. The peace movement is an old phenomenon given new life by NATO decisions concerning nuclear deployment in Europe and the Soviet responses along the same lines. After a long postwar marriage, Europeans and Americans alike are reexamining the premises of the Western alliance.The contributors provide a variety of scenarios, extending from the maintenance of the status quo to the complete dismantling of the Western alliance, or at least of its NATO component. In a context of rapid change and new challenges to the democratic bloc, the editors and authors argue for higher levels of economic integration and caution that competition might spill over into political collapse.The work deals with thorny security issues in a frank and policy-oriented way. While each contributor expresses a unique standpoint, a surprising consensus emerges: The need for democratic nations to move toward a higher policy ground in order to preserve the fundamental alliance that led to the postwar consensus to begin with. Some contributors feel this is still possible, others that the time has passed, and that national rather than regional interests will once more prevail.The work contains an extraordinary array of talent from both the American and European perspectives. Among the major contributors and their themes are Henry Kissinger on "A Plan to Reshape NATO"; William G. Hyland on "The European Peace Movement and NATO"; Irving Kristol on "What's Wrong with NATO?"; Theodore Draper on "The Western Misalliance"; Niels Haagerup on "The Nordic Peace Movements"; Martin Ceadel on "The British Nuclear Disarmers"; and Jeffrey Herf on "The SPD and the Peace Movement in West Germany." This is a well-integrated text, with no random essays.

Author : April Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901181

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Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics Since 1945 by April Carter Pdf

There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to war before 1945, and then examines how public opposition to nuclear weapons and testing grew in the 1950s and early 1960s. Later chapters cover the major ressurgence of nuclear disarmament campaigns in the 1980s. The book also looks at how peace protest has spread from its origins in North America and North West Europe to embrace many parts of the world; opposition to nuclear testing has indeed been particularly strong in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. The period 1945 to 1990 was dominated by the Cold War between the USA and USSR, and the role of the Soviet-sponsored World Peace Council caused difficulties for indeptendent peace groups in the West. During the 1980s the emergence of autonomous peace activity in a number of East European countries, and even on a very small scale in the USSR itself, transformed the possibilities for East-West co-operation between citizens to urge disarmament and political change. A chapter examines these developments. Opposition to all forms of militarism has spread in the last 30 years. This book charts the struggles to extend the right to conscientious objection to military service, and draft resistance to particular wars - for example in Southern Africa and Israel. It also looks in some detail at the growing opposition to the war in the Vietnam. The recent protests against the Gulf War are surveyed briefly in an epilogue.

Author : Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124200556

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Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA During the Cold War by Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

Author : Edited by Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718181396

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Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA During the Cold War by Edited by Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

This volume offers a wealth of empirical information on peace movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA in the period from 1945 to 1990, discussing anti-nuclear protests in the USA, West Germany and the UK, but also in often neglected countries such as France, Italy and Japan. The contributors provide fresh analytical perspectives on peace protests and reassess their relevance for a history of the Cold War. Several chapters analyze the symbolic politics of peace protests and demonstrate how they were embedded in the political culture of their respective nation-state. Specific emphasis is placed on attempts by artists and peace activists to make the dangers of nuclear war and the need for peace and disarmament visible. Transnational connections between peace protesters and their attempts to establish links with other social movements are another focus of the volume. Based on comparative research, this volume is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War and of social movements in the post-war period..

Author : Thomas R. Rochon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400859702

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Mobilizing for Peace by Thomas R. Rochon Pdf

The crusade against nuclear weapons in Great Britain, West Germany, France, and the Netherlands in the early 1980s dwarfed all previous protest movements in Western Europe in the postwar period. What produced the demonstrations against NATO's decision in December 1979 to base 572 cruise and Pershing II missiles in five West European countries? What generated the widespread support that the demonstrators enjoyed? Contrary to the frequent claim that such political movements are a symptom of governmental crisis in the advanced industrial democracies, Thomas Rochon develops the idea that they arise from a creative impulse and perform crucial functions of innovative criticism. He concludes that the West European peace movement has ignited a public debate in which reduction or elimination of certain categories of nuclear weapons is taken seriously for the first time. Among the topics examined are the sources of support for the peace movement in public opinion, the types of people who joined or supported the movement, and proposals they offered for a nonnuclear defense policy. The author discusses the organization of the movement and its choice of tactics, its impact on politics, and the links between it and other institutions such as churches, trade unions, and political parties. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : David Gress
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0817980938

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Peace and Survival by David Gress Pdf

Author : Robert Rudney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822003851722

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Peace Research in Western Europe by Robert Rudney Pdf

Author : Soloman Wank
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1978-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006565769

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Doves and Diplomats by Soloman Wank Pdf

Author : Charles Chatfield
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Peace
ISBN : PSU:000030805170

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Peace Movements in America by Charles Chatfield Pdf

With the exception of the newly added introduction and preface, this book is a reprint of the Spring 1972 issue of American studies.

Author : Thomas Hippler,Miloš Vec
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198727996

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Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe by Thomas Hippler,Miloš Vec Pdf

'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping peace' is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces the conceptual history of peace in nineteenth century legal and political practice. It explores the role of the value of peace in shaping the public rhetoric and legitimizing action in general international relations, international law, international trade, colonialism, and armed conflict. Departing from the assumption that there is no peace as such, nor can there be, it examines the contradictory visions of peace that arise from conflict. These conflicting and antagonistic visions of peace are each linked to a set of motivations and interests as well as to a certain vision of legitimacy within the international realm. Each of them inevitably conveys the image of a specific enemy that has to be crushed in order to peace being installed. This book highlights the contradictions and paradoxes in nineteenth century discourses and practices of peace, particularly in Europe.

Author : Cecelia Lynch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 080143548X

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Beyond Appeasement by Cecelia Lynch Pdf

The interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineffective. More seriously, the standard histories have also held that they severely weakened national efforts to resist Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Cecelia Lynch provides a long-overdue reevaluation of these movements. Throughout the work she challenges these interpretations, particularly regarding the postwar understanding of Realism, which forms the basis of core assumptions in international relations theory.The Realist account labels support for interwar peace movements as idealist. It holds that this support--largely pacifist in Britain, largely isolationist in the United States--led to overreliance on the League of Nations, appeasement, and eventually the onset of global war. Through a careful examination of both the social history of the peace movements and the diplomatic history of the interwar era, Lynch uncovers the serious contradictions as well as the systematic limitations of Realist understanding and outlines the making of the structure of the world community that would emerge from the war.Lynch focuses on the construction of the United Nations as evidence that the conventional history is incomplete as well as misleading. She brings to light the role of social movements in the formation of the normative underpinnings of the U.N., thus requiring scholars to rethink their understanding of the repercussions of the interwar experience as well as the significance of social movements for international life.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691046085

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Pacifism in Europe to 1914 by Peter Brock Pdf

In a companion volume to Pacifism in the United States, Peter Brock surveys the history of the pacifist movement in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the First World War. His detailed narrative is directed to the activities--and the beliefs that motivated them--of these sects in particular: the Czech Brethren of the late Middle Ages; the radical Anabaptists of the Protestant Reformation; their less militant offshoot, the Mennonites; the Quakers of Cromwell's England; and the Tolstoyans of nineteenth-century Russia. Mr. Brock concludes his account with a working definition of normative pacifism, a typology of pacifism, and a discussion of the factors present in the genesis and decay of pacifist groups. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.