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

• Superior document: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18
• TeilnehmendeR: Kraft, Alison,; Sachse, Carola, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Thinker’s Lodge -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on Contributors -- The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric, Realities /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004340173
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse.

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.