Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on science and world affairs in the early Cold War

Author(s)

• Kraft, Alison
• Sachse, Carola

Bibliographic Information

Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on science and world affairs in the early Cold War

edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse

（History of modern science / Massimiliano Badino, Alexander Blum, Jürgen Renn, v. 3）

Brill, [2020]

• : hardback

Other Title

Science, (anti-) communism and diplomacy

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations 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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Details

• NCID: BC04612506
• ISBN:
  • 9789004340152
• LCCN: 2019033424
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 356 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JX1974.7
  • DC23 : 327.1/74709045
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nuclear disarmament
  • LCSH : Cold War -- History
  • LCSH : Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC04611514