Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative
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罗纳德·里根的战略防御计划
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2014
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William Steding
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William Steding
罗纳德·里根对自由神权的追求得到了冷战期间美苏之间最具争议的外交政策之一的支持：战略防御倡议(SDI)。被媒体称为《星球大战》1的SDI被许多人嘲笑为科幻小说和奇幻小说，被其他人批评为危险的催化剂，将使美国和苏联之间的军备竞赛升级，还有一些人胜利地宣告SDI是美国力量和独创性的杰出表达。事实上，SDI没有做到这些说法中的任何一项，但它确实成为里根改变与苏联传统对话的战略的核心，并坚定了他打破他认为的世界末日进程的决心，这一进程是由基于遏制和缓和的政策产生的。本章探讨了SDI的起源、里根的认识论和SDI，以及在里根20世纪80年代初面临的政治环境中SDI的发展和孵化。最后，我们看到SDI与里根的思想非常契合，为他提供了一项政策，解决了他在1983年初面临的许多问题和政治挑战，也是吸引一系列热情支持者的试金石。
Ronald Reagan’s pursuit of a divine imperium of freedom was supported by one of the most contentious foreign policy issues between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War: The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Called “Star Wars”1 by the media, SDI was mocked by many as science fiction and fantasy, criticized by others as a dangerous catalyst that would escalate the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, and still others triumphantly heralded SDI as a brilliant expression of American power and ingenuity. In truth, SDI fell short of any of these claims, but it did become the centerpiece of Reagan’s strategy to change conventional discourse with the Soviet Union and gird his resolve to break what he perceived was an apocalyptic progression toward Armageddon produced by policies based in containment and detente. This chapter explores the origins of SDI, Reagan’s cognetics and SDI, and the development and incubation of SDI in the political environment Reagan faced in the early 1980s. In the end, we see that SDI was a perfect fit with Reagan’s cognetics and provided him a policy that addressed many issues and political challenges he faced in early 1983, as well as a touchstone to attract an array of enthusiastic supporters.