scholarly journals International or Transnational? Continuities or Ruptures? Introduction to the Special Issue on Nordic Women and the Transnational Networks during the Cold War

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Elgán ◽  
Yulia Gradskova ◽  
Heidi Kurvinen
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Kraft ◽  
Holger Nehring ◽  
Carola Sachse
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Global Cold War ◽  
Cold War History

This introductory essay elucidates the purpose and major themes of the special issue. The contributors to the issue provide an in-depth look at the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs (usually referred to as just Pugwash) to explore important themes in Cold War history. Among other topics covered in the issue are the impact of Pugwash in many countries, the nature of its organization, and the distinctive way in which it worked, as well as its importance for the relationship between scientists and the Cold War states and its role as a political actor and as a transnational actor. All of these issues and more make Pugwash a compelling subject for scholars of the Cold War.

East Asia at the Crossroads of Cooperation and Rivalry at the Regional and International Levels: Editorial Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Anna V. Kuteleva ◽  
Denis A. Shcherbakov
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Economic Revitalization ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
International Status ◽  
Foreign Policy Strategies

The rise of new powers throughout the 2000s and the 2010s augurs the end of the unipolar system that has persisted since the end of the Cold War. In no region is this transition more compelling than in East Asia. Economic revitalization of this region and a steady redistribution of power related to it is a dynamic process characterized by intense changes in foreign policy strategies, practices, and orientations of China, Korea, and Japan. The proposed special issue seeks to critically assess the emerging developments of Chinas, Japans, and Koreas core international perceptions and policies. More specifically, the special issue addresses two complex and interrelated questions. Firstly, how do China, Korea, and Japan adapt to the changing international landscape? Secondly, how do China, Korea, and Japan respond to the challenges inherent to the pursuit of the enhanced international status? The contributions to this special issue aim at scrutinizing Chinas cybersovereignty and industrial policy; exploring the strengths and limitations of Koreas public diplomacy; and examining Japans contributions to regionalism. The special issue also discusses Russias relations with East Asia and its role in regional politics.

The End of the Cold War as a Hard Case for Ideas

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Wohlforth
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Hard Case ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Cold War

The articles in this special issue of the journal succeeded in meeting the core objective set out in the introduction: to refine, deepen, and extend previous studies of the role of ideas in the end of the Cold War. In particular, they confront more forthrightly than past studies a major challenge of studying ideas in this case; namely, that ideas, material incentives, and policy all covaried. Two other important problems for those seeking to establish an independent role for ideas remain to be addressed in future studies. Facing those problems as squarely as the contributors to this issue have faced the covariation problem will yield major benefits for the study of ideas in this case and in international relations more generally.

Culture, Politics and the Cold War: The Sociedad de Escritores de Chile in the 1950s

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 549-571
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Nállim
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Local Branch ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Cold War ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
Political Groups

AbstractIn the 1950s, the Sociedad de Escritores de Chile experienced bitter disputes caused by the efforts of the Chilean Committee for Cultural Freedom, the local branch of a major institution in the US cultural Cold War, to gain control of the association. These disputes reveal the role played by the cultural Cold War in the breakdown of older political and intellectual alliances in Chile. They also highlight the transnational networks that connected Chilean writers during the Cold War, and the complex articulation of local and international contexts and agendas that influenced Chilean cultural and political groups.

scholarly journals The (Science Diplomacy) Origins of the Cold War

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Turchetti
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Science Diplomacy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Atomic Diplomacy

The US monopoly of information regarding nuclear weapons was one of the distinctive features of the early Cold War. It encouraged US officials to bolster their country’s hegemonic role in post-war affairs, something that scholars have previously referred to in terms of “atomic diplomacy.” This paper shows that Cold War atomic diplomacy originated in an ancestral form of what we call today “science diplomacy,” distinctive of wartime allied relations during WW2. It first explores how science became a distinctive feature of wartime diplomacy by looking at agreements regarding exchanges of information and collaboration that shaped the relations between wartime allies (US, UK, and the Soviet Union). It then shows that their signing (and, at times, their rejection) eventually paved the way to conflicting views within allied administrations on what to share, making their officials less inclined to pool more knowledge toward the end of WW2. In conclusion, US monopolistic stances and atomic diplomacy originated in these disagreements, also marking the demise of wartime science diplomacy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Science Diplomacy, edited by Giulia Rispoli and Simone Turchetti.

From Modern Physics to the Cold War and Beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Zuoyue Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
The Cold War

This essay is part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50,” edited by Erika Lorraine Milam.

Introduction: The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Tannenwald ◽  
William C. Wohlforth
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
North American ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Important Place ◽  
New Models ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the Cold War helped to prompt new interest in the study of ideas in international politics. Once the province of a few dedicated researchers on the fringes of the discipline, scholarship on the role of ideas now occupies an important place in the mainstream of North American and especially European international relations research. The five articles in this special issue of the journal are intended to move the research agenda on ideas and the end of the Cold War to a new level of rigor. They develop new models of how ideas affected the outcome and, in so doing, take stock of this event to refine our understanding of how ideas work in international politics. Although we seek a deeper understanding of the end of the Cold War itself, we also use this seminal case to clarify and advance the debate over the role of ideas in international politics more generally.

Introduction: Italy's foreign policy and the Mediterranean

Modern Italy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Carbone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Cold War

Following the end of the Cold War, Italy took on greater responsibilities in dealing with the increased challenges to international security, especially in its neighbourhood. The aim of this special issue of the journal Modern Italy is to understand to what extent Italy has been successful in developing a third circle in its foreign policy beyond the two traditional lodestars, Atlanticism and Europeanism; or whether Italy's competence in the Mediterranean has been strategically used to improve its relationship with the United States or its position within the European Union.

scholarly journals Building the Socialist Balkans

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kulić
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Technical Discipline ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Cold War

This article introduces the special issue of Southeastern Europe dedicated to architecture in the Balkans produced in the networks of socialist internationalism. The built heritage of socialism has suffered several waves of erasure, most spectacularly exemplified by the current remake of Skopje, but it is also undergoing a surge in popular and scholarly interest. Focusing on Bucharest, Skopje, Sofia, and the activities of the Belgrade company Energoprojekt in Nigeria, the issue contributes to the growing scholarship on socialist and postsocialist space by analyzing architecture’s global entanglements during the Cold War. “Architecture” is understood here not only as the built environment in its various scales, but also as a regulated, organized profession, a field of cultural production, an art, and a technical discipline. It thus opens up a broad range of phenomena that cut across the fabric of society: from the representations of specific global imaginaries, to the transnational exchanges of expertise, services, and material goods.

scholarly journals Circumventing the Cold War: The parallel diplomacy of economic and cultural exchanges between Western Europe and Socialist China in the 1950s and 1960s: An introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANGELA ROMANO ◽  
VALERIA ZANIER
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Cold War

This special issue brings together historians with expertise on China and Western Europe who have the explicit intent of bridging the existing gap between two parallel strands of scholarship, that is, Europe in the Cold War and the history of Socialist China, and combining the different perspectives and approaches of international, diplomatic, business, and cultural historiographies. The contributors’ lively interaction and close collaboration has been the key to the conceptual development of a broader view of the relations between West European countries and Socialist China in the early decades of the Cold War, as well as of China's policy towards the capitalist world before the Reform and Opening era.

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