TY - BOOK ID - 85727231 TI - Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War AU - Kraft, Alison AU - Sachse, Carola PY - 2020 SN - 9004340173 9004340157 PB - Leiden Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear disarmament. KW - Cold War KW - World politics KW - Atomic bomb and disarmament KW - Atomic weapons and disarmament KW - Disarmament, Nuclear KW - Nuclear weapons disarmament KW - Disarmament KW - Antinuclear movement KW - Nuclear weapons KW - History. KW - Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs. KW - Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs KW - Conférences Pugwash sur la science et les problèmes internationaux KW - Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (Organization) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85727231 AB - 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. ER -