Programmed for Arms Control? Northern European Social Democratic Security Policy Discussions, 1976-83

TY - CHAP

T1 - Programmed for Arms Control? Northern European Social Democratic Security Policy Discussions, 1976-83

AU - Mariager, Rasmus Mølgaard

PY - 2016/1/1

Y1 - 2016/1/1

N2 - Following the signing of the Helsinki Final Act of August 1975 superpower détente faced a crisis - one that continued until 1985 when relations improved anew.1 It was, however, not only East-West détente that faced a crisis in this period. The transatlantic relationship had also become strained. In his outline of the relationship between the US and Western Europe since 1945, historian Geir Lundestad has highlighted that criticism of the US flourished in Western Europe between 1977 and 1984, with some exceptions made for Margaret Thatcher’s UK. While Western European public opinion still supported the US’s role and position in the world, it was at the same time tremendously critical of it.2 As for the main bone of contention, existing scholarly research has revealed that governments and public opinion in Western Europe were divided over President Ronald Reagan’s general Cold War policies, over the US Strategic Defence Initiative and, from 1985 onwards, over how to deal with the new leadership in Moscow under Mikhail Gorbachev.

AB - Following the signing of the Helsinki Final Act of August 1975 superpower détente faced a crisis - one that continued until 1985 when relations improved anew.1 It was, however, not only East-West détente that faced a crisis in this period. The transatlantic relationship had also become strained. In his outline of the relationship between the US and Western Europe since 1945, historian Geir Lundestad has highlighted that criticism of the US flourished in Western Europe between 1977 and 1984, with some exceptions made for Margaret Thatcher’s UK. While Western European public opinion still supported the US’s role and position in the world, it was at the same time tremendously critical of it.2 As for the main bone of contention, existing scholarly research has revealed that governments and public opinion in Western Europe were divided over President Ronald Reagan’s general Cold War policies, over the US Strategic Defence Initiative and, from 1985 onwards, over how to deal with the new leadership in Moscow under Mikhail Gorbachev.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Kold krig

KW - Socialdemokratisme

KW - Socialistisk Internationale

KW - Labour Party

KW - SPD

KW - Arbeiderpartiet

KW - Socialdemokratiet

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781472459404

SP - 145

EP - 163

BT - The 'Long 1970s': Human rights, East-West Détente and Transnational Relations

A2 - Villaume, Poul

A2 - Mariager, Rasmus

A2 - Porsdam, Helle

PB - Routledge

ER -