Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on science and world affairs in the early Cold War
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Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on science and world affairs in the early Cold War
(History of modern science / Massimiliano Badino, Alexander Blum, Jürgen Renn, v. 3)
Brill, [2020]
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Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, the US and USSR - this volume offers a critical reassessment of the development and work of "Pugwash" nationally, internationally, and as a transnational forum for Track II diplomacy. This major new collection reveals the difficulties that Pugwash scientists encountered as they sought to reach across the blocs, create a channel for East-West dialogue and realize the project's founding aim of influencing state actors. Uniquely, the book affords a sense of the contingent and contested process by which the network-like organization took shape around the conferences.
Contributors are Gordon Barrett, Matthew Evangelista, Silke Fengler, Alison Kraft, Fabian Luscher, Doubravka Olsakova, Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Rubinson, and Carola Sachse.
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Notes on Contributors
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric,
Realities
Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse
Founding a Transnational Network of Concerned Scientists in a
Bipolar World
1 Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frederic Joliot-Curie, the World
Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash
Movement
Geoffrey Roberts
2 Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and his Pugwash Scientists
Carola Sachse
Pugwash and the Superpowers
3 Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash,
1955-1960
Fabian Luscher
4 American Scientists in "Communist Conclaves:" Pugwash and
Anti-communism in the United States, 1957-1968
Paul Rubinson
5 Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of
Sino-Pugwash Networks
Gordon Barrett
Pugwash at the Central European Frontier
6 "Salonbolschewiken:" Pugwash in Austria, 1955-1965
Silke Fengler
7 Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash
and the Soviet Peace Agenda in 1950s and 1960s
Doubravka Olsakova
8 Confronting the German Problem: Pugwash in West and East Germany,
1957-1964
Alison Kraft
Blurring the Borders of a New Discipline: The Achievements and Prospects
of Pugwash History
Matthew Evangelista
Index
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