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"Featuring new evidence on: the end of the Cold War, 1989; the fall of the Wall; Sino-Soviet relations, 1958-59; Soviet missile deployments, 1959; the Iran Crisis, 1944-46; Tito and Khrushchev, 1954. ; "Fall/Winter 2001" ; Caption title. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; "Featuring new evidence on: the end of the Cold War, 1989; the fall of the Wall; Sino-Soviet relations, 1958-59; Soviet missile deployments, 1959; the Iran Crisis, 1944-46; Tito and Khrushchev, 1954. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Beyond the Divide -- Part I - Political Processes and Transnational Networks -- Chapter 1 - Opening Up Political Space: Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process -- Chapter 3 - Transmitting the ""Freedom Virus"": France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security Cooperation -- Chapter 4 - Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-75 -- Part II - Interplay in the Academic Contexts

Compilation of the keynote address and papers presented at the Conference on Cold War Archives in the Decade of Openness sponsored by the Department of Defense and the Library of Congress and held at the Library, June 28-29, 2000, highlighting the collections of the Defense Department's Open House Program deposited in the European Division of the Library. ; Edited by Frank N. Schubert. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book recounts how during the Cold War the study of science moved to the centre of academic through the creation of the new discipline of science studies. In this way the volume charts the importance of these studies for the trajectory of Cold War nations through the elaboration of new national science policies and the transnational dialogue, even across the Iron Curtain, between key scholars involved in shaping their trajectory. By examining how a new group of intellectuals was mobilized by state administrators to convincingly set up a discipline deemed to have major repercussions on the advancement of science in developed and undeveloped nations. Secondly, by putting the study of science at the centre of the dialogue (as well as the confrontation) between nations and Cold War blocs. The volume thus shows how an often considered arcane field of enquiring had in fact major implications for the understanding and fostering of Cold War science.