Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
Title | Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004340173 |
This book explores how Pugwash scientists established a role in conflict moderation, what held this project together and how state actors in East and West perceived their efforts, complicating existing narratives about “Pugwash” and challenging notions about the naivety of scientists.
Freedom's Laboratory
Title | Freedom's Laboratory PDF eBook |
Author | Audra J. Wolfe |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1421439085 |
Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.
From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War
Title | From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Kraft |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2022-10-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 303112135X |
This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War. Conceived by western scientists dissenting from their own government’s position on nuclear weapons, the conferences brought together elite scientists from across the East-West divide to work towards nuclear disarmament and for peace. The analysis follows two lines. First, the book charts the emergence during the conferences of a distinctive form of technopolitical communication that was crucial to the role of Pugwash in Informal cross-bloc dialogue about disarmament. This enabled Pugwash to realize its paradoxical vision of working both with and against governments to promote disarmament and was key to its role as both a forum for and actor within the realm of informal diplomacy. It is argued that Pugwash scientists formed the vanguard of what came in the 1960s to be called Track II diplomacy. The relevance of the contemporary concept of Science Diplomacy for Pugwash is discussed. The second analytical focus of the book centers on the internal dynamics of the international Pugwash organization. It is argued that informal modes of working and a code of confidentiality accorded the leadership enormous power and autonomy: this small network of senior figures was able to control the Pugwash agenda and priorities, and to launch diplomatic initiatives beyond the conferences. However, by 1967, competing interests were fueling tensions and instability within Pugwash as it struggled for coherence and direction amid with the political challenges posed by the Vietnam War and European security. This crisis manifest the limits of the Pugwash project and placed its future in doubt.
Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II
Title | Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Whitesides |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 705 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108356052 |
The sciences played a critical role in American foreign policy after World War II. From atomic energy and satellites to the green revolution, scientific advances were central to American diplomacy in the early Cold War, as the United States leveraged its scientific and technical pre-eminence to secure alliances and markets. The growth of applied research in the 1970s, exemplified by the biotech industry, led the United States to promote global intellectual property rights. Priorities shifted with the collapse of the Soviet Union, as attention turned to information technology and environmental sciences. Today, international relations take place within a scientific and technical framework, whether in the headlines on global warming and the war on terror or in the fine print of intellectual property rights. Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II provides the historical background necessary to understand the contemporary geopolitics of science.
The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy
Title | The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Erik P. Hoffmann |
Publisher | London : Butterworths |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
The Anti-communist Crusade
Title | The Anti-communist Crusade PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip William Lear |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN |
International Politics
Title | International Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Lewis Schuman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Imperialism |
ISBN |