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Global Power Knowledge : Science And Technology In International Affairs

  • Global Power Knowledge : Science And Technology In International Affairs

  • Title

    • Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd Ser. V. 21

  • Attribution

    edited by John Krige and Kai- Henrik Barth

  • Publication Details

    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2006

  • Availability

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q125 .G56 2006  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Introduction: science, technology, and international affairs, new perspectives /John Krige, Kai-Henrik Barth
    • Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the Making of the IAEA /Gabrielle Hecht
    • Ambivalence of nuclear histories / Itty Abraham
    • Prometheus unleashed : science as a diplomatic weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration /Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper
    • Politics of noncooperation: the boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics /Alexis De Greiff
    • Exporting MIT: science, technology, and nation-building in India and Iran /Stuart W. Leslie, Robert Kargon
    • "An effective instrument of peace": scientific cooperation as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, 1938-1950 /Clark A. Miller
    • Atoms for peace, scientific internationalism, and scientific intelligence /John Krige
    • Catalysts of change: scientists as transnational arms control advocates in the 1980s /Kai-Henrik Barth
    • Hallowed lords of the sea: scientific authority and radioactive waste in the United States, Britain, and France /Jacob Darwin Hamblin
    • Meteorology as infrastructural globalism /Paul N. Edwards
    • Globalization and regulation in the biotech world: the transatlantic debates over cancer genes and genetically modified crops /Jean-Paul Gaudillère
    • Biotechnology and empire: the global power of seeds and science /Sheila Jasanoff

  • ISBN

    • 0226454045
    • 9780226454047

  • Open Library ID

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