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Michael Bess

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)

344 pages, 4 halftones  6 x 9  © 1993

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226044200   Published December 1993

Paper $26.00

ISBN: 9780226044217   Published December 1993

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
Subjects



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