TY - BOOK ID - 12030984 TI - The strategic defense initiative PY - 1992 VL - 23 SN - 0511584873 0511002319 9780511002311 0521410975 9780511584879 9780521054003 9780521410977 0521054001 PB - Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Strategic Defense Initiative KW - Arms race KW - Military & Naval Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Air Forces KW - History. KW - History KW - United States KW - Military policy. KW - Arms proliferation KW - Proliferation of arms KW - SDI (Ballistic missile defense system) KW - Star Wars (Ballistic missile defense system) KW - Security, International KW - Arms control KW - Arms transfers KW - Disarmament KW - Military readiness KW - Ballistic missile defenses KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12030984 AB - This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS). ER -