2016/01/01 by Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald +1 · 18 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Twentieth Century Scientific Developments #International Science and Diplomacy #History of Science and Medicine #Cold war #Politics #History #Political science #Law
paper · open access · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55943-2
published in Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks (Palgrave Macmillan)
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2017/02/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar âbattlefieldsâ of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role in cultural Cold War in sustaining as well as destabilizing political ideologies in different political and national contexts. Secondly, it was an instrument of science policies in the early Cold War: the studies of science were promoted as the underpinning for the national policies framed with regard to both global geopolitics and local national priorities. As this book demonstrates, however, the wider we cast our net, extending our histories beyond the more researched developments in the Anglophone West, the more complex and ambivalent both the âscience studiesâ and âthe Cold Warâ become outside these more familiar spaces. The national stories collected in this book may appear incommensurable with what we know as science studies today, but these stories present a vantage point from which to pluralize some of the visions that were constitutive to the construction of âCold Warâ as a juxtaposition of the liberal democracies in the âWestâ and the communist âEast.â .