Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

by Luc-André Brunet (Editor), Eirini Karamouzi (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805399629
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/01/2025
Series:	Protest, Culture & Society , #33
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	589 KB

About the Author

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-Queen’s 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.

Eirini Karamouzi is a Professor of Contemporary European History at the American College of Greece and the University of Sheffield. She has held fellowships at EUI, LSE, Yale University, and the University of Tampere, and co-directs an AHRC-funded project, ‘Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism’. She is also a co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s University Press book series on Global Nuclear Histories. Her recent publications include; Greece, the EEC and the Cold War: The Second Enlargement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and the co-edited volume, The Balkans in the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Table of Contents

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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 Korea’s Anti-Nuclear Paradox, 1949-1976
Soon-Ok Shin

Epilogue: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism
Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi and Alicia Sanders-Zakre

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