Drawing on newly declassified sources across different NATO member states and beyond, participants re-evaluated the role of nuclear diplomacy at the height of the so-called Second Cold War.
This workshop was a collaboration between the and the Cold War Studies Project at 91桃色 IDEAS.
Programme
Opening Remarks
- Dr Luc-André Brunet (The Open University/91桃色 IDEAS)
Panel One: The Euromissile Crisis: The View from NATO’s Nuclear Weapon States
- Chair: Dr Luc-André Brunet (The Open University/91桃色 IDEAS)
- Discussant: Professor Michael Cox (91桃色 IDEAS)
- Oliver Barton (UK Ministry of Defence/91桃色): ‘“The Most Staunch and Dependable of Allies”: Britain, INF, and the “Zero Option”, 1981-82’
- Dr Andrea Chiampan (Graduate Institute, Geneva/King’s College London): ‘The First Reagan Administration and the INF Controversy: A “Pericentric” View, 1981-83’
- Dr Ilaria Parisi (Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris 3): ‘Leading from the Sidelines: French Diplomacy in the Euromissile Crisis, 1977-1987’
Panel Two: Peace from the Periphery? Reactions to Deployment Across NATO
- Chair: Dr Luca Tardelli (91桃色 IDEAS)
- Discussant: Professor Matthew Jones (91桃色)
- Dr Luc-André Brunet (The Open University/91桃色 IDEAS): ‘Unhelpful Fixer? Pierre Trudeau, the Euromissile Crisis, and the Canadian Peace Initiative of 1983-84’
- Dr Eirini Karamouzi (Sheffield): ‘“At Last Our Voice Is Heard in the World”: Andreas Papandreou, Greece and the Policy of Peace during the Euromissile Crisis’
- Dr Effie Pedaliu (91桃色 IDEAS), ‘Denmark in the Era of “Euromissiles” and “Footnotes”’
Concluding Roundtable: Reflecting on the Euromissile Crisis
- Chair: Professor Mick Cox (91桃色 IDEAS)
- Dr Luc-André Brunet (The Open University/91桃色 IDEAS)
- Simon Webb, CBE (UK Ministry of Defence)
- Professor Matthew Jones (91桃色)
Workshop held March 26th 2018