Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War / / Edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse

• Pubblicazione: Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 pages)
• Disciplina: 327.174709045
• Soggetto topico: Nuclear disarmament; Cold War - History
• Persona (resp. second.): KraftAlison; SachseCarola <1951->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy
• ISBN: 90-04-34017-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910737391203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; ; volume18.