The Technology Strategy And Politics Of Sdi

Author : Stephen J Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000306224

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The Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi by Stephen J Cimbala Pdf

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one another. This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a BMD system by the United States or the Soviet Union. Contributors discuss the risks for arms race stability, probable reactions of the Soviet Union to any U.S. space-based defense system, and implications for the stability of extended deterrence commitments to NATO European allies. They also evaluate Soviet research and development programs in missile defense that must be considered in any extrapolation of the requirements for U.S. deterrence in the next several decades.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Power resources
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030024691117

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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca S. Bjork
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791496787

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The Strategic Defense Initiative by Rebecca S. Bjork Pdf

Through an analysis of the language and persuasive strategies used by the Reagan and Bush administrations in selling the SDI program to the Congress and the American public, Bjork takes a fresh approach to the study of U.S. foreign policy. She focuses on the shared meanings and understandings of policy as they are created through sociocultural interaction. Using Kenneth Burke's philosophy and critical method of dramatism as a theoretical framework, she shows how Reagan's SDI program appealed symbolically to a nostalgic sense of American history, replete with powerful images of American innocence and technological ingenuity in the face of difficult obstacles. Bjork concludes that the program has been shielded from criticism, has achieved symbolic and bureaucratic momentum, and serves to reinforce the isolation felt by ordinary American citizens from access to decisions over life and death issues.

Author : Sanford Lakoff,Herbert F. York
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520328075

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A Shield in Space? by Sanford Lakoff,Herbert F. York Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082080172

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Space by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orrin Schwab
Publisher : Orrin Schwab
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technocracy
ISBN : 9781589821903

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Redeemer Nation by Orrin Schwab Pdf

In this book, Dr. Orrin Schwab develops the concept of the modern technocratic state as part of a global technocratic culture and civilization. The author argues that technocratic cultural and institutional forms were, and are, part of a collective ?script? for Western culture. The American script, combined the scientific, commercial, and technological aspects of the Enlightenment with the radical 17th century Protestant belief in America as a new Zion. In the twentieth century, the synthesis of mission, along with global technocratic knowledge and institutions, created the Wilsonian liberal technocratic order. As the principal agent and protector of the modern capitalist international system, America, the self-defined Redeemer Nation, has moved through the controlled anarchy of international relations, from one war and crisis to the next, confirmed in its self-defined role and mission.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110642654

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Testimony on the Adequacy of the Defense Budget by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Aaron Bateman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262547369

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Weapons in Space by Aaron Bateman Pdf

A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he established the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively known as “Star Wars,” a space-based missile defense program that aimed to protect the US from nuclear attack. In Weapons in Space, Aaron Bateman draws from recently declassified American, European, and Soviet documents to give an insightful account of SDI, situating it within a new phase in the militarization of space after the superpower détente fell apart in the 1970s. In doing so, Bateman reveals the largely secret role of military space technologies in late–Cold War US defense strategy and foreign relations. In contrast to existing narratives, Weapons in Space shows how tension over the role of military space technologies in American statecraft was a central source of SDI’s controversy, even more so than questions of technical feasibility. By detailing the participation of Western European countries in SDI research and development, Bateman reframes space militarization in the 1970s and 1980s as an international phenomenon. He further reveals that even though SDI did not come to fruition, it obstructed diplomatic efforts to create new arms control limits in space. Consequently, Weapons in Space carries the legacy of SDI into the post–Cold War era and shows how this controversial program continues to shape the global discourse about instability in space—and the growing anxieties about a twenty-first-century space arms race.

Author : Jeffrey Arthur Larsen,James M. Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0810850605

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Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament by Jeffrey Arthur Larsen,James M. Smith Pdf

"Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament also provides information that is comprehensible to all readers. Jeffrey A. Larsen and James M. Smith present a context for the broader range of international relations at a given point in time, extending the utility of the dictionary beyond just a narrow examination of arms control."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Samuel Lockwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351474726

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The Russian View of U.S. Strategy by Jonathan Samuel Lockwood Pdf

Soviet perceptions of U.S. strategy remained remarkably consistent from the post-Stalin period through the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. The consistency of the Soviet tendency to engage in the 'mirror-image' fallacy in their analyses of U.S. doctrine and strategic intentions has profound implications for the future relationship of the U.S. and the now-independent republics. This authoritative volume analyzes the Soviet/Russian perspectives of U.S. strategic evolution from the declaration of the 'massive retaliation' doctrine of 1954 through the Soviet collapse of 1991.The Soviets considered the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenal as the main factor giving them political leverage over U.S. foreign policy and predicted that a defense policy based on strategic defense would be the most effective deterrent from a Soviet perspective. Now the Russian military and political leadership places a high value on strategic nuclear forces in terms of political leverage and prestige.Building upon a wide variety of international sources, the Lockwoods offer a penetrating assessment of how the present Russian perspective will affect political relationships, not only with the U.S. and the West, but also among the independent republics. This factor will become ever more critical as they vie for decentralized versus unified control of what was the Soviet nuclear arsenal under the shadow of the collapsing economies. The authors also introduce a new theory concerning the future impact of ballistic missile defense on operational warfare in light of the U.S. experience in Operation Desert Storm. The Russian View of U.S. Strategy provides a comprehensive historical context and an up-to-date appraisal of an uncertain and potentially volatile development in U.S.-Russian relations. It will be of interest to historians, policymakers, and military analysts.

Author : Edward Reiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521410977

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The Strategic Defense Initiative by Edward Reiss Pdf

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).

Author : Roman Kolkowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135779894

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Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy by Roman Kolkowicz Pdf

Nuclear strategy and deterrence in their "golden age"--A nostalgically defined period sometime in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s - promised to harness and control the nuclear Moloch; hopes were high that the civilian strategists flooding into Washington would succeed in designing a new science of war that would safeguard national security, provide a stable international environment, and develop a rational decision-making process for the management of national interests in a hostile nuclear world. Three decades later, it is a commonplace that the erstwhile promises and pretensions of the nuclear "w

Author : Harvey Brooks,Bruce R. Guile
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309037365

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Technology and Global Industry by Harvey Brooks,Bruce R. Guile Pdf

Author : Steven W Guerrier,Wayne C Thompson,Barry M Blechman,George Rathjens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000301588

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Perspectives On Strategic Defense by Steven W Guerrier,Wayne C Thompson,Barry M Blechman,George Rathjens Pdf

Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl

Author : P. Edward Haley,Jack Merritt,Martin C Needler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000313215

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Strategic Defense Initiative by P. Edward Haley,Jack Merritt,Martin C Needler Pdf

This book covers the Reagan administration's original proposal; the main disagreements about strategic and technical feasibility; the effects of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; and the effects of SDI on relations between the U.S. and its allies.