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.
Full Product Details
Author: Gordon Barrett ,
Matthew Evangelista ,
Silke Fengler ,
Fabian Lüscher
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.711kg
ISBN: 9789004340152
ISBN 10: 9004340157
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 17 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""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),
""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
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.
