CENTAURUS, vol. 63, issue 1, incl. Global Perspectives on Science Diplomacy
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CENTAURUS
The journal of the European Society for the History of Science
The latest issue of Centaurus is now available online.
VOLUME 63, ISSUE 1
CONTENTS:
Special issue: Global Perspectives on Science Diplomacy
GUEST EDITORS: Matthew Adamson and Roberto Lalli
In the last two decades, science diplomacy has become a central issue in framing the relations between science, science policy, and foreign relations. Presenting a broad range of cases from the second half of the 20th century, this special issue offers new insights into the complex relations between science and diplomacy from a global perspective, in turn showing the potential of diplomatic perspectives to reconfigure our understanding of the recent history of science.
- Matthew Adamson and Roberto Lalli, "Global perspectives on science diplomacy: Exploring the diplomacy‐knowledge nexus in contemporary histories of science" [Open access]
- S. Waqar and H. Zaidi, "Scientists as political experts: Atomic scientists and their claims for expertise on international relations, 1945–1947"
- Li Zhang and Yanmei Zhu, "Technical assistance versus cultural export: George Cressey and the U.S. Cultural Relations Program in wartime China, 1942–1946"
- Matthew Adamson and Simone Turchetti, "Friends in fission: US–Brazil relations and the global stresses of atomic energy, 1945–1955"
- Cláudia Castelo and Frederico Ágoas, "Inter‐African cooperation in the social sciences in the era of decolonization: A case of science diplomacy"
- Ann E. Robinson, "Attempting neutrality: Disciplinary and national politics in a Cold War scientific controversy"
- Roberto Lalli, "Crafting Europe from CERN to Dubna: Physics as diplomacy in the foundation of the European Physical Society" [Open access]
- Jiří Janáč and Doubravka Olšáková, "On the road to Stockholm: A case study of the failure of Cold War international environmental initiatives (Prague Symposium, 1971)"
- Sam Robinson, "Scientific imaginaries and science diplomacy: The case of ocean exploitation" [Open access]
Articles
- Aviva Rothman, "Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy in context"
- Marco Storni, "Cartography, geodesy, and the heliocentric theory: Yves Simonin's unpublished papers"
Historiographical article
- Erica Charters and Kristin Heitman, "How epidemics end" [Open access]
Various ESHS
- Paolo Savoia, "Virtual Bologna ESHS 2020 conference report"
- The ESHS Officers and the Scientific Council