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UNINA9910737391203321 |
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Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War / / Edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse |
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Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (372 pages) |
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Collana |
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Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; ; volume18 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nuclear disarmament |
Cold War - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Thinker’s Lodge -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note 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 -- Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement / Geoffrey Roberts -- Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and His Pugwash Scientists / Carola Sachse -- Pugwash and the Superpowers -- Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955–1960 / Fabian Lüscher -- American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957–1968 / Paul Rubinson -- Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks / Gordon Barrett -- Pugwash at the Central European Frontier -- “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955–1965 / Silke Fengler -- Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in the 1950s and 1960s / Doubravka Olšáková -- 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 -- Back Matter -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Lüscher, Doubravka Olšáková, Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Rubinson, and Carola Sachse. |
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