Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War
by Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse
Description
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.
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Author Biography
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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- Publisher Brill
- Publication Date October 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789004340152
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 149 EUR
- Pages372
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions235x155 mm
- Illustration1
- SeriesHistory of Modern Science
- Series Part3
