Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy: the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War
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Körperschaft: European Society for the History of Science Prag (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Kraft, Alison (HerausgeberIn), Sachse, Carola 1951- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2020]
Schriftenreihe:History of modern science volume 3
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Abstract:"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."
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"Both editors wish to thank our contributors for taking part in a panel at the conference of the European Society for the History of Science in Prague in 2016 and for their cooperation in bringing this collected volume together." -- Acknowledgements
Umfang:XV, 356 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9789004340152