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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.
Contributors are Gordon Barrett, Matthew Evangelista, Silke Fengler, Alison Kraft, Fabian Lüscher, Doubravka Olšáková, Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Rubinson, and Carola Sachse.
Price: $215.00
Pages: 356
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
17 October 2019
ISBN: 9789004340152
Format: Hardcover
"Es ist das Verdienst des vorliegenden Sammelbandes, erstmals umfassend und auf breiter Quellengrundlage die Geschichte von Pugwash für die Jahre 1955 bis 1965 auszuleuchten, ohne dabei hagiographischen oder verdammenden Tendenzen zu verfallen."
---- Lukas Mengelkamp, in: H-Soz-Kult , June 2021.
“Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse’s Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy […] represents the first sustained examination of how the rhetorical call to action of the Manifesto was transformed into the physical gatherings known cumulatively as the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. […] the volume clarifies the scale and purposes of the Pugwash meetings—whether national or international.”
---- Kirk Willis, in: Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, winter 2023, Vol. 43: pp. 181-92.
---- Lukas Mengelkamp, in: H-Soz-Kult , June 2021.
“Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse’s Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy […] represents the first sustained examination of how the rhetorical call to action of the Manifesto was transformed into the physical gatherings known cumulatively as the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. […] the volume clarifies the scale and purposes of the Pugwash meetings—whether national or international.”
---- Kirk Willis, in: Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, winter 2023, Vol. 43: pp. 181-92.
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.
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.