UID:
almahu_9949702640902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004340176
Series Statement:
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18
Content:
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.
Note:
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Thinker's Lodge -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on Contributors -- The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric, Realities /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy: the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War, Leiden Boston: BRILL, 2020
Language:
English
