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Informationen zum Autor Christoph Becker-Schaum is the Director of the Green Memory Archive at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. Philipp Gassert is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim and a past deputy director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. His publications include America’s Wars (co-written with Alexander Emmerich, 2015). Martin Klimke is Associate Dean of Humanities and Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the US, 1962–1972 (2010) and co-author of A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany (2010). Wilfried Mausbach is the Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University. He is the coeditor of The American Presidency: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2012) and of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s (2010). Marianne Zepp was Program Director for Contemporary History at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. She is the coeditor of Politische Gewalt in Deutschland: Ursprünge – Ausprägungen – Konsequenzen (Göttingen: Wallstein 2014). Klappentext In 1983! more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches! rallies! and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment! the episode was a decisive one for German society! revealing deep divisions in the nation's political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the "Euromissiles" crisis as experienced by its various protagonists! analyzing NATO's diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political! cultural! and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles' deployment in East and West Germany. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Nuclear Crisis, NATO's Double-Track Decision, and the Peace Movement of the 1980s: An Introduction¿ Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp Chapter 1. From Helsinki to Afghanistan:¿¿ The CSCE Process and the Beginning of the Second Cold War ¿Anja Hanisch Chapter 2. The NATO Double-Track Decision: Genesis and Implementation¿ Tim Geiger Chapter 3. SS-20 and Pershing II: Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations¿ Oliver Bange Chapter 4. NATO's Double-Track Decision and East-West German Relations ¿Hermann Wentker Chapter 5.Political Parties Jan Hansen Chapter 6. Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement¿ Silke Mende and Birgit Metzger Chapter 7. Rationality of Fear: The Intellectual Foundations of the Peace Movement¿ Marianne Zepp Chapter 8. The Institutional Organization of the Peace Movement ¿Christoph Becker-Schaum Chapter 9. The Spaces and Places of the Peace Movement¿ Susanne Schregel Chapter 10. The Protagonists of the Peace Movement¿ Saskia Richter Chapter 11. The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany¿ Rainer Eckert Chapter 12. Visual and Media Strategies of the Peace Movement Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Laura Stapane Chapter 13. The Churches ¿Sebastian Kalden and Jan Ole Wiechmann Chapter 14. Trade Unions Dietmar Süß Chapter 15. The Police
