Overview

"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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Author:   Gordon Barrett ,  Matthew Evangelista ,  Silke Fengler ,  Fabian Lüscher
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.711kg
ISBN:  

9789004340152

ISBN 10:   9004340157
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes 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 1 Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement Geoffrey Roberts 2 Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and his Pugwash Scientists Carola Sachse Pugwash and the Superpowers 3 Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955-1960 Fabian Lüscher 4 American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957-1968 Paul Rubinson 5 Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks Gordon Barrett Pugwash at the Central European Frontier 6 “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955-1965 Silke Fengler 7 Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in 1950s and 1960s Doubravka Olšáková 8 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 Index

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"""Es ist das Verdienst des vorliegenden Sammelbandes, erstmals umfassend und auf breiter Quellengrundlage die Geschichte von Pugwash für die Jahre 1955 bis 1965 auszuleuchten, ohne dabei hagiographischen oder verdammenden Tendenzen zu verfallen."" - Lukas Mengelkamp, Philipps-Universität Marburg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 23.06.2021"

Es ist das Verdienst des vorliegenden Sammelbandes, erstmals umfassend und auf breiter Quellengrundlage die Geschichte von Pugwash fur die Jahre 1955 bis 1965 auszuleuchten, ohne dabei hagiographischen oder verdammenden Tendenzen zu verfallen. Lukas Mengelkamp (Philipps-Universitat Marburg),

Author Information

Alison Kraft is a historian of science in the twentieth century. She has published widely on the history of the life sciences, including the development of stem cell biology, and on the changing relationship between physics, biology and medicine, focusing on radiological themes/technologies. Carola Sachse is full professor (em.) for contemporary history at the University of Vienna and guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). Currently she is working on the history of the Max Planck Society in international relations.

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