| Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War Contributor(s): Kraft, Alison, Sachse, Carola |
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ISBN: 9004340157 ISBN-13: 9789004340152 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - History | Modern - 20th Century - Political Science | International Relations - Diplomacy |
| Series: History of Modern Science |
| Physical Information: 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 L scher, Doubravka Ols kov , Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Rubinson, and Carola Sachse. |