| Description |
1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security Ser |
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Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Contents -- Part I Nuclear Disengagement -- Nuclear disengagement -- I. Disengagement in central Europe: objectives -- II. The functions of NWFZs in northern and southern Europe -- III. Characteristics of NWFZs -- IV. The European connection -- V. A Nordic nuclear weapon-free zone: the military context -- VI. Geographical domain -- VII. Transit provisions -- VIII. Deployment limitations in areas adjacent to the zone -- IX. Verification |
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X. Prospects and procedures -- Part II Proposals for Nuclear Disengagement in Europe -- Paper 1. Nuclear disengagement efforts 1955-80: politics of status quo or political change? -- I. A Nordic NWFZ and the wider European context -- II. German reunification or status quo? -- III. The Rapacki Plan and the all-European perspective -- IV. NWFZs on the flanks also? -- V. The dynamic concept of Ostpolitik: a new deal in the East-West relationship -- VI. The MFR and the issue of status quo -- VII. The blocking of the process of detente: implications for the question of nuclear disengagement |
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VIII. A Nordic NWFZ: an urgent matter -- Paper 2. A central European view on a nuclear weapon-free zone in the North -- I. The idea of nuclear weapon-free zones -- II. Evolution of the debates on an NWFZ in the North -- III. The strategic context -- IV. Pragmatic thinking -- V. Specific interests of the Soviet Union -- VI. Basic principles -- VII. An unfolding process -- Paper 3. European security policy in the 1980s: rethinking Western strategy -- I. From detente to confrontation -- II. The post-detente era -- III. Need for an agonizing reappraisal -- IV. The 'no-first-use' issue |
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V. Denuclearization and arms control -- Paper 4. A nuclear weapon-free zone in the Balkans -- I. Origins of the idea -- II. The conceptual framework -- III. Political and economic premises -- IV. A tentative outline of a BNWFZ -- V. Favourable conditions -- Paper 5. Disengagement and nuclear weapon-free zones: raising the nuclear threshold -- I. The rationale for withdrawal of battlefield nuclear weapons -- II. The depth of the zone -- III. Connections between nuclear disengagement and conventional rearrangements -- IV. The restrictions, and their effects -- V. Benefits for conventional defence |
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VI. Nuclear disengagement zones vs. no-first-use commitments -- Part III A Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in the North: the Military Context -- Paper 6. The northern seas in Soviet and US strategy -- I. Introduction -- II. The Northern Flank and US security interests -- III. The Soviet Navy: two decades of modernization -- IV. The implications of the Soviet naval buildup -- V. Reagan's defence policy and the Northern Flank -- VI. The implications for a Nordic nuclear weapon-free zone -- Paper 7. The Barents and Arctic Seas in power calculations: implications for Norway and the Nordic countries |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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I. The region's crucial importance |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lodgaard, Sverre
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Thee, Marek
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| ISBN |
9781000199550 |
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100019955X |
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