Rocking The Boat. New Zealand, The United States And The Nuclear-free Zone Controversy In The 1980s

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Berg
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 1989
Edition: First Edition

Description: 185 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This book examines the New Zealand Labour governments policy banning nuclear powered and armed warships from the countrys ports. It comprises a case-study of the pressure put on the government by the United States to reverse this policy. The policy is first placed in New Zealands historical and social context and the immediate steps leading to its implementation described. There follows a discussion of US, British and Australian opposition to the ban (focusing on the US) and the options available to overturn it. The volume contains a detailed chronology of events as they happened during the first term of government until the general election of 1987 (including the sinking of The Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour) and concludes with a discussion of the issues raised and of the apparent failure of opposition to the ban.

ISBN: 9780854962792