Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy

Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2004-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309090938

This report is intended to provide a brief historical perspective of the evolution of the interacademy program during the past half-century, recognizing that many legacies of the Soviet era continue to influence government approaches in Moscow and Washington and to shape the attitudes of researchers toward bilateral cooperation in both countries (of special interest is the changing character of the program during the age of perestroika (restructuring) in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union); to describe in some detail the significant interacademy activities from late 1991, when the Soviet Union fragmented, to mid-2003; and to set forth lessons learned about the benefits and limitations of interacademy cooperation and to highlight approaches that have been successful in overcoming difficulties of implementation.

Cultural Exchange and the Cold War

Cultural Exchange and the Cold War
Author: Yale Richmond
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2003-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271031573

Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.

China's Cold War Science Diplomacy

China's Cold War Science Diplomacy
Author: Gordon Barrett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108956254

During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon Barrett demonstrates that these activities were deeply embedded in the Chinese Communist Party's wider efforts to win hearts and minds from the 1940s to the 1970s. Using a wide range of archival material, including declassified documents from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Barrett provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and foreign relations in the People's Republic of China.

U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchanges, 1958-1986

U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchanges, 1958-1986
Author: YALE. RICHMOND
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367215583

The U.S.-USSR Cultural Agreement signed at the Geneva summit in 1985 signalled the resumption of a broad range of cultural exchanges suspended in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mr. Richmond describes the history of the various areas of exchange--in the performing arts, popular media, academia, public diplomacy, science and technology

U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchanges, 1958-1986

U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchanges, 1958-1986
Author: Yale Richmond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000008827

The U.S.-USSR Cultural Agreement signed at the Geneva summit in 1985 signalled the resumption of a broad range of cultural exchanges suspended in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mr. Richmond describes the history of the various areas of exchange—in the performing arts, popular media, academia, public diplomacy, science and technology