Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud

Name: Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226044217
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Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989--Louise Weiss

Autor: Michael Bess

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press

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How have the weapons of the nuclear age changed the rules of international politics? Can co-operatio...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Michael Bess

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1993

strony

344

EAN

9780226044217

ISBN

0226044211

Enbook ID

04542537

Wydawca

The University of Chicago Press

Waga

540

Wymiary

158 x 23 x 21

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How have the weapons of the nuclear age changed the rules of international politics? Can co-operation replace coercion as an instrument of security? This book compares the biographies of four dissident intellectuals who grappled with these questions throughout their careers - Louise Weiss, Leo Szilard, E.P. Thompson, and Danilo Dolci. Though they shared a revulsion for the "balance of terror," they possessed sharply divergent visions of a post-Cold War peace, from the Gandhi-like non-violence of Dolci to Szilard's relentless quest for US-Soviet joint diplomacy. Weiss, a French journalist and realpolitiker, believed that a united European military power would break the Cold War impasse; Szilard, a physicist and father of the atomic bomb, pressed for co-operative diplomacy between the superpowers; Thompson, a British historian, mobilized millions in the grassroots campaign for European Nuclear Disarmament; and Dolci, an Italian poet, experimented with conflict resolution through education and non-violence. By comparing the ideals, successes, and failures of these activists, this book illustrates the problematic boundary between "realism" and utopianism" in the nuclear age.

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