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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraft, Alison, editor.

Sachse, Carola, 1951- editor.

Series:

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear disarmament.

Cold War--History.

Cold War.

Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-34017-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004340176 DOI