The Politics of Peace - Petra Goedde

The Politics of Peace

A Global Cold War History

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-537083-6 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
A study of the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations during the early Cold War, this book argues that a transnational politics of peace emerged through the dynamic interaction among three global actors: Cold War states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists.
During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations.

This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it.

The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.

Petra Goedde is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 and the co-editor of The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (OUP, 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (OUP, 2013).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "If You Want Peace, Prepare for War"
1. Old and New Left Internationalism and the Search for World Peace
2. Peace with the Planet: The International Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons
3. "Bridges of Reconciliation": The Religious Conceptualization of Peace in the Cold War
4. Gendered Peace, Women's Peace
5. War on Peace: Decolonization's Challenge to the Global Discourse on Peace
6. The Politics of Peace
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 15 halftones
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 241 x 160 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-19-537083-X / 019537083X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-537083-6 / 9780195370836
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