Global Power Knowledge Science and Technology in International Affairs

Name: Global Power Knowledge Science and Technology in International Affairs
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ISBN: 9780226454047

ISBN-10: 0226454045

ISBN-13: 9780226454047

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Krige, Kai-Henrik Barth

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Osirisannualy examines a particular topicnbsp;in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the time period, episode, or theme. Volume 21,Historical Perspectives on Science, Technology, and International Affairs,explores the ways in which scientists and issues in science and technology have played significant roles in foreign policy and international relations, especially since the Second World War.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Global power knowledge : science and technology in international affairs


Introduction : science, technology, and international affairs : new perspectives



In the shadow of the superpowers


Negotiating global nuclearities : apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA



The ambivalence of nuclear histories



Prometheus unleashed : science as a diplomatic weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration



The politics of noncooperation : the boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics



Exporting MIT : science, technology, and nation-building in Indian and Iran



Science and U.S. foreign policy


"An effective instrument of peace" : scientific cooperation as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, 1938-1950



Atoms for peace, scientific internationalism, and scientific intelligence



Catalysts of change : scientists as transnational arms control advocates in the 1980s



Science, technology, and globalization


Hallowed lords of the sea : scientific authority and radioactive waste in the United States, Britain, and France



Meteorology as infrastructural globalism



Globalization and regulation in the biotech world : the transatlantic debates over cancer genes and genetically modified crops



Biotechnology and empire : the global power of seeds and science