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This book examines the planned disaggregation of the global
structures of the Cold War. In the final years of a decades-long
era of bipolarity, the United States and the Soviet Union co
managed a continental transformation that erased Europe's Iron
Curtain.
The Nuclear and Space Talks revolutionized arms control. The Cold
War endgame commenced with the umbrella negotiations' that linked
START and INF negotiations to a regulation on the weaponization of
space. This volume reveals a US grand strategy to replace
deterrence with a collective security order. An entente of the
superpowers was needed to transform bipolarity. The US planned the
replacement of mutually assured destruction by mutually assured
security. A global astrodome was to protect a nuclear disarmed
world. The Franco-German special relationship in European affairs
had to be amended by a US-SU special relationship to replace
classic bloc politics. The Reagan Administration planned a global
zero agenda, a joint development of a global protective system and
a creation of a Common House of Europe. In brief, the superpowers
prepared 'the velvet revolution' that eliminated the Cold War
structures. Neither containment nor convergence offers a valid
explanation of the Cold War endgame. Co-creation is the key to
decipher the end of the Cold War. NATO Europe challenged the
transformation of bipolarity. The European NWS resisted to a
multilateralization of strategic arms control. In Europe the
classic Cold War thinking survived the fall of the Iron Curtain.
European conservatism contributed to the geopolitical catastrophe
of the first order: the downfall of the Soviet Union. The Reagan
Administration developed a Grand Strategy to end the Cold War. The
US-SU co-creation of an astrodome was meant to ease a global zero
agenda. A global collective security structure under the United
Nations was to replace deterrence. The superpower project collapsed
due to the penetration of US decision-making by NATO Allies. The
European NWS totally objected to a multilateralization of strategic
arms control to preserve their relative position in the
international system.
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