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The Politics of Peace - A Global Cold War History (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Peace - A Global Cold War History (Hardcover)
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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.
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