The Euromissile debate in retrospect. Jeffrey Herf War by other means : Soviet power, West German resistance, and the battle of the Euromissiles (New York: The Free Press, 1991)
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Telos, 1991, Vol. 1991, No. 88, pp. 205-210
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PETERS, Susanne, The Euromissile debate in retrospect. Jeffrey Herf War by other means : Soviet power, West German resistance, and the battle of the Euromissiles (New York: The Free Press, 1991), Telos, 1991, Vol. 1991, No. 88, pp. 205-210 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/36357
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It has been over a decade since NATO's controversial decision to deploy intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe caused a heated debate in the European countries involved. Herf's new book focuses on the history of this dispute in West Germany. By analyzing post-war German intellectual history and political culture, he seeks to explain how the Euromissile decision became so controversial. His central thesis is that during the 1960s and 1970s the German Left blurred the crucial distinction between dictatorship and democracy, which resulted in public apathy about the Soviet threat. Accordingly, the competition between dictatorships and democracies and the “asymmetric” advantage of the former is the study's underlying theme.