Realism, utopia, and the mushroom cloud : four activist intellectuals and their strategies for peace, 1945-1989 : Louise Weiss, France, Leo Szilard, USA, E.P. Thompson, England, Danilo Dolci, Italy /

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Author / Creator:Bess, Michael
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1993.
Description:xxviii, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1513033
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ISBN:0226044203 (alk. paper)
0226044211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Peace through Strength: Louise Weiss's Global Realpolitik
  • 2. Peace through Cooperative Diplomacy: Leo Szilard's Vision of a Superpower Duopoly
  • 3. Peace as Grass-Roots Internationalism: E. P. Thompson's Campaign against Bloc Politics
  • 4. Peace through Social Transformation: Danilo Dolci's Long-Range Experiments with Gandhian Nonviolence
  • Conclusion
  • The Limits of the Possible: Three Core Debates
  • The Future of Government on a Global Scale
  • The Human Capacity for Change
  • Two Conceptions of Power
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index