Vakencorner
A Blessing in Disguise: Reconstructing International Relations Through Atomic Energy
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
|
Even as it was being waged, the Second World War was seen by many in Britain as a unique rupture in the global system of international relations. It provided, many believed, the opportunity for its reconstruction into a stable, peaceful, and lasting form. Histories of thinking on and planning for this reconstruction during and after World War Two have traditionally focused on the United Nations Organization and associated agencies.1 This paper however adds to a growing interest in other powerfully imagined world orders, which although they did not materialize nevertheless left their mark on the post-war period.2 I focus on proposals for the international control of atomic energy, which I show to be a vital part of internationalist hopes for a new reconstructed world order.
Historians of proposals for the international control of atomic energy have not recognized such proposals as part of a wider ranging re-imagining of international relations. They have instead portrayed them as more narrowly focused attempts at disarmament—either pacifist endeavours motivated by fear or horror, or calculated attempts at diplomatic advantage by the American government and its supporters.3 I show in this paper, on the contrary, that these proposals were not pacifist in nature, but incorporated a crucial militant element. Rather than simply limiting the use of the bomb, internationalists planned its use, alongside atomic energy more broadly, by supranational authority. International peace and security, and so the reconstruction of international relations itself, was to be achieved through an international force armed with the atomic bomb, and through the international cooperation of scientists and other technical experts. Mer: http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/210/suppl_6/309.full
Posted on: 2011/4/3 19:55
|
|||
|
Paypal
Facebook
Gå även med i vår facebook-grupp och bli en av de över 15 000 som diskuterar där.
Login
Vilka är Online
Nya medlemmar
test_user |
01/01/2020 |
brifrida | 09/05/2019 |
Turbozz | 08/15/2019 |
Fr4nzz0n | 07/30/2019 |
Egenerfarenhett | 05/19/2019 |
Bloggar o Länkar
I11time.dk
911 Truth i Danmark.
Se verkligheten
Dissekerar skildringar från massmedia.
Den dolda agendan
Nyheter på svenska.
Klarsikt
Mats Sederholm & Linda Bjuvgård.
Dominic Johansson
Hjälp Dominic att komma hem.
Mjölkpallen
Mjölkpallen är samlingsplatsen där bonnförnuftet tros ha sitt säte.
911truth.no
911 Truth i Norge.
Nyhetsspeilet.no
Nyheter på norska.
En bild säger mer ...
Citat från eliten som bilder.
Folkvet
Sanningen är dold bland lögnerna
Fred & Frihet
Geoengineering.se
Hur påverkar geoengineering dig?
Grundläggande frihetsbegrepp på svenska