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by Matthew Evangelista (Author) "In 1995 the Norwegian Nobel Committee, chaired by Francis Sejersted, awarded its Peace Prize to the original transnational antinuclear movementthe Pugwash Conferences on Science and..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 406 pages
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press (6 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0801436281
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801436284
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.3 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the US and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote ideas and policies that would lessen this danger. Two of their organizations - the Pugwash movement and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - won Nobel Peace Prizes. But many observers still believe that their influence was negligible and that the Reagan administration deserves sole credit for ending the Cold War. This work explores the impact these activists had on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain, demonstrating the importance of their efforts on behalf of arms control and disarmament. Matthew Evangelista examines the work of transnational peace movements throughout the Krushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev eras and into the first years of Boris Yeltsin's leadership. Drawing on research in Russian archives and interviews with Russian and Western activists and policy-makers, he investigates the sources of Soviet policy on nuclear testing, strategic defence and conventional forces.

Evangelista concludes that transnational actors at times played a crucial role in influencing Soviet policy - specifically in encouraging moderate as opposed to hardline responses - for they supplied both information and ideas to that closed society. Evangelista's findings challenge widely accepted views about the peaceful resolution of the Cold War. By revealing the connection between a state's domestic structure and its susceptibility to the influence of transnational groups, the text should stimulate thinking about the broader issue of how government policy is shaped.



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Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote ideas and policies that would lessen this danger. Two of their organizations--the Pugwash movement and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War--won Nobel Peace Prizes. Still, many observers believe that their influence was negligible and that the Reagan administration deserves sole credit for ending the Cold War. The first book to explore the impact these activists had on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain, Unarmed Forces demonstrates the importance of their efforts on behalf of arms control and disarmament.

Matthew Evangelista examines the work of transnational peace movements throughout the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras and into the first years of Boris Yeltsin’s leadership. Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives and on interviews with Russian and Western activists and policymakers, he investigates the sources of Soviet policy on nuclear testing, strategic defense, and conventional forces. Evangelista concludes that transnational actors at times played a crucial role in influencing Soviet policy--specifically in encouraging moderate as opposed to hard-line responses--for they supplied both information and ideas to that closed society.

Evangelista’s findings challenge widely accepted views about the peaceful resolution of the Cold War. By revealing the connection between a state’s domestic structure and its susceptibility to the influence of transnational groups, Unarmed Forces will also stimulate thinking about the broader issue of how government policy is shaped.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How activist scientists helped end the Cold War, 13 Jun 1999
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This is an excellent survey of how activist scientists in East and West interacted, throughout the four decade Cold War, to advance arms control goals: the Test Ban, the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, and nuclear disarmament especially. It details, in particular: the work of Bernard Lown in the 1980s (with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) on the test ban; the work of Thomas Cochran in the 1980s (With National Resources Defense Council) on private sector inspection of Russian activities; the work of Frank von Hippel (of Federation of American Scientists) in the 1980s in linking American activists to Russian activist scientists, and my own work in the 1960s to catalyze and promote an ABM Treaty and my subsequent work in the latter half of the 1980s (for Federaton of American Scientists) to prevent the Reagan Star Wars program from derailing disarmament. But this book details much heretofore unknown about the Russian reactions to these efforts and their own struggles, with Andre Sakharov and other participants, to advance arms control. And it contains interesting theories about how these interactions worked. (A more detailed and personal survey of my own work appears in "Every Man Should Try": Adventures of a Public Interest Activist, PublicAffairs, 1999)
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