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The Hamburg Institute for Social Research is an independent private foundation devoted to scholarship in contemporary history and the social sciences. Through their research projects and at conferences, lectures, and other academic and public events conducted by the Institute, staff members promote intellectual exchange across geographical and disciplinary borders and beyond academia. This goal also shapes the thematic focus of both the Institute’s publishing company, the Hamburger Edition, and its in-house journal, Mittelweg 36.
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Press Release, 4 August 2010
Intellectual History of the Cold War
Conference, 31 August–3 September 2010, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
The Cold War was a conflict of ideas and models of global order. It generated new beliefs about politics and society, and mobilized a large number of intellectuals. Knowledge became the crucial strategic resource for demonstrating each bloc's superiority and determining which side would win the global confrontation.