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    The Power of Systems

    How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

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    Author(s)
    Rindzeviciute, Egle
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100418
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where policy scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain could work together to articulate and solve world problems, most notably global climate change. One of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War, this think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31493
    Keywords
    History; global climate change; iron curtain; cold war; Cybernetics; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Soviet Union; Systems theory
    DOI
    10.7591/cornell/9781501703188.001.0001
    ISBN
    9781501703188
    OCN
    965831618
    Publisher
    Cornell University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Ithaca, NY, 2016-11-15
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100418 - KU Select 2016 Front List Collection
    Classification
    Cold wars and proxy conflicts
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Cybernetics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_for_Applied_Systems_Analysis; Soviet Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union; Systems theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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