Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War

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...

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Main Authors: Kraft, Alison, Sachse, Carola
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2019
BRILL
Edition:1
Subjects:
Cold War
Cold War > History
Disarmament
History
Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear disarmament
Peace
Pugwash Conferences
Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs
Soft Diplomacy
Track II Diplomacy
Transnational network
Vienna Declaration
ISBN:9789004340152, 9004340157, 9789004340176, 9004340173
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction. The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric, Realities -- Part 1: Founding a Transnational Network of Concerned Scientists in a Bipolar World -- Chapter 1. Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement -- Chapter 2. Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and His Pugwash Scientists -- Part 2: Pugwash and the Superpowers -- Chapter 3. Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955-1960 -- Chapter 4. American Scientists in ``Communist Conclaves:'' Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957-1968 -- Chapter 5. Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks -- Part 3: Pugwash at the Central European Frontier -- Chapter 6. ``Salonbolschewiken:'' Pugwash in Austria, 1955-1965 -- Chapter 7. Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in the 1950s and 1960s -- Chapter 8. Confronting the German Problem: Pugwash in West and East Germany, 1957-1964 -- Commentary. Blurring the Borders of a New Discipline: The Achievements and Prospects of Pugwash History -- Index