In May 1971, the Czechoslovak capital hosted an international conference on the environment that brought together high‐ranking government officials and scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. The idea to organize such an event reflected Czechoslovakia's interest in environmental planning and was one of the main outcomes of the country's science diplomacy in the field of global environmentalism in the late 1960s. Organized under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the meeting aimed to be an important stepping‐stone in the formation of a new international institutional landscape related to the environment. UNECE, with its history of facilitating international cooperation across the Iron Curtain, provided an optimal platform for such an undertaking. Nonetheless, the Symposium on Problems Relating to Environment was overshadowed by the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the outcomes of which were instrumentalized by the Soviets to promote their own international policy aims associated with the Brezhnev Doctrine. Soviet authorities considered the environment to be a purely domestic issue and did not show much interest in pursuing international environmental cooperation. The “German Question” at the UN served as a Soviet instrument to pursue Soviet interests and resulted in the downgrading of the Prague meeting and a subsequent boycott of the Stockholm Conference by the entire Eastern Bloc. Based on a detailed analysis of materials produced by the event organizers (archived in Prague and Geneva), this paper shows how Cold War geopolitics played a decisive role in shaping emerging global environmentalism.

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在通往斯德哥尔摩的道路上：冷战国际环境倡议失败的案例研究（布拉格专题讨论会，1971年）

1971年5月，捷克斯洛伐克首都举办了一次有关环境的国际会议，来自铁幕两侧的高级政府官员和科学家聚集了起来。组织这种活动的想法反映了捷克斯洛伐克对环境规划的兴趣，并且是该国在1960年代后期在全球环境主义领域进行科学外交的主要成果之一。该会议在联合国欧洲经济委员会（UNECE）的主持下组织，旨在成为形成与环境有关的新的国际体制格局的重要踏脚石。联合国欧洲经济委员会在促进跨铁幕的国际合作的历史上，为这一工作提供了最佳平台。尽管如此，1972年在斯德哥尔摩召开的联合国人类环境会议使与环境有关的问题研讨会黯然失色，苏联人将其成果发挥了作用，以促进与勃列日涅夫主义相关的国际政策目标。苏联当局认为环境纯粹是国内问题，对寻求国际环境合作没有太大兴趣。联合国的“德国问题”成为追求苏联利益的苏联手段，导致布拉格会议的等级降低，随后整个东欧集团抵制斯德哥尔摩会议。根据对活动组织者（存档于布拉格和日内瓦）制作的材料的详细分析，