Missing Interaction. Science and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 288, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 5 col., 2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503613789.

-
Summary This book enriches our understanding of the circumstances and conditions that have made the relation between science and diplomacy a primary concern of the political landscape in the twenty first century. As western liberal democracy and its effects on the environment but also on global war politics are under question, authors in this collective volume rethink the effects that an ahistorical definition of science diplomacy has had on world politics. They document the historicity of the entanglement between, on the one hand, epistemic practices and knowledge production and, on the other, foreign policy strategies and negotiation tactics. The book is the first in a series of what Rentetzi calls 'Diplomatic Studies of Science', a highly inter- and trans- disciplinary field that analyzes science and diplomacy as historically co-produced. It primarily focuses on the entanglements of science and diplomacy after the Second World War, bridging history of science, diplomatic history and international relations TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. The Missing Interaction Part 1. Diplomatic epistemology at large Emily Baum (University of California, Irvine) Needle Diplomacy. Acupuncture and Scientific Exchange in Cold War China and the United States Aya Homei (University of Manchester) From 'Integration Project' to 'Three-in-One Project'. Family Planning and Health Diplomacy between Japan and the People's Republic of China, 1970s-1980s Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg) The Global Experiment. How the International Atomic Energy Agency Proved Dosimetry to Be a Techno-Diplomatic Issue. Grigoris Panoutsopoulos (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Investigating CERN's Science Diplomacy in the Midst of the Cold War. The Case of the CERN-Serpukhov Collaboration Part 2. International organizations in focus Gordon Barrett (University of Manchester) A Disunited Front? The World Federation of Scientific Workers and the 1952 Korean Bacteriological Warfare Allegations Loukas Freris (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg) "Through Diplomatic Channels". Science, Diplomacy, and Greece's Efforts for Election to the IAEA Board of Governors, 1957-1961 Barbara Kirsi Silva (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) Reaching for the Stars during the Cold War. Science and Diplomacy in the Rise of Astronomy in Chile Gloria Maritza G mez Revuelta (El Colegio de M xico) Cosmic Diplomacy and Vertical Sovereignty. The Equator's Claims over the Geostationary Orbit, 1975-1982 Part 3. Actors at the crossroad of science and diplomacy Fintan Hoey (Franklin University Switzerland) Imai Ry?kichi. Japan's Nuclear Diplomat Maria Rentetzi, Kapil Patil, and Irina Fedorova (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg) Cooperation or Control? Scientist-Diplomats, the IAEA, and the Global Nuclear Order