Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34015-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 711 g

Reihe: History of Modern Science

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barrett, Gordon

Evangelista, Matthew

Fengler, Silke

Lüscher, Fabian

Olša´kova´, Doubravka

Roberts, Geoffrey

Rubinson, Paul

Kraft, Alison

Sachse, Carola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes 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

1 Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World
Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash
Movement
Geoffrey Roberts

2 Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and his Pugwash Scientists
Carola Sachse

Pugwash and the Superpowers

3 Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash,
1955-1960
Fabian Lüscher

4 American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and
Anti-communism in the United States, 1957-1968
Paul Rubinson

5 Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of
Sino-Pugwash Networks
Gordon Barrett

Pugwash at the Central European Frontier

6 “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955-1965
Silke Fengler

7 Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash
and the Soviet Peace Agenda in 1950s and 1960s
Doubravka Olšáková

8 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.