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).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Thinker’s Lodge -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note 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 -- Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement / Geoffrey Roberts -- Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and His Pugwash Scientists / Carola Sachse -- Pugwash and the Superpowers -- Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955–1960 / Fabian Lüscher -- American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957–1968 / Paul Rubinson -- Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks / Gordon Barrett -- Pugwash at the Central European Frontier -- “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955–1965 / Silke Fengler -- Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in the 1950s and 1960s / Doubravka Olšáková -- 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 -- Back Matter -- Index.