LEADER 04006nam 22005295 450 001 9910620198303321 005 20230810175902.0 010 $a9783031121357$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031121340 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-12135-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7120741 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7120741 035 $a(CKB)25188965000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-12135-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925188965000041 100 $a20221022d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War /$fby Alison Kraft 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (148 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,$x2211-4572 311 08$aPrint version: Kraft, Alison From Dissent to Diplomacy: the Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031121340 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Moscow, late 1960: A breakthrough in East-West dialogue -- Chapter 3. Stowe, VT, September 1961: two contrasting conferences in America -- Chapter 4. The Pugwash leadership: Informal diplomacy beyond the conferences, 1962-1967 -- Chapter 5. The politics of European security: a step too far for Pugwash? -- Chapter 6. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War. Conceived by western scientists dissenting from their own government?s position on nuclear weapons, the conferences brought together elite scientists from across the East-West divide to work towards nuclear disarmament and for peace. The analysis follows two lines. First, the book charts the emergence during the conferences of a distinctive form of technopolitical communication that was crucial to the role of Pugwash in Informal cross-bloc dialogue about disarmament. This enabled Pugwash to realize its paradoxical vision of working both with and against governments to promote disarmament and was key to its role as both a forum for and actor within the realm of informal diplomacy. It is argued that Pugwash scientists formed the vanguard of what came in the 1960s to be called Track II diplomacy. The relevance of the contemporary concept of Science Diplomacy for Pugwash is discussed. The second analytical focus of the book centers on the internal dynamics of the international Pugwash organization. It is argued that informal modes of working and a code of confidentiality accorded the leadership enormous power and autonomy: this small network of senior figures was able to control the Pugwash agenda and priorities, and to launch diplomatic initiatives beyond the conferences. However, by 1967, competing interests were fueling tensions and instability within Pugwash as it struggled for coherence and direction amid with the political challenges posed by the Vietnam War and European security. This crisis manifest the limits of the Pugwash project and placed its future in doubt. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,$x2211-4572 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aInternational Relations 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 14$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aInternational Relations. 676 $a704.9496107307474811 676 $a327.174709046 700 $aKraft$b Alison$01263204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910620198303321 996 $aFrom Dissent to Diplomacy$92960331 997 $aUNINA