Mobilizing for Peace: the Antinuclear Movements in Western Europe
In: Princeton Legacy Library
Abstract
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 a.
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Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9781400859702, 1400859700, 9781306986496, 1306986494
Seiten
255
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