Global power knowledge : science and technology in international affairs / edited by John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth. - Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2006. - iii, 309 p. ; 26 cm. - Osiris, 21 0369-7827 ; . - Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser. v. 21. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: science, technology, and international affairs, new perspectives / Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the Making of the IAEA / Ambivalence of nuclear histories / Prometheus unleashed : science as a diplomatic weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration / Politics of noncooperation: the boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics / Exporting MIT: science, technology, and nation-building in India and Iran / "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 / 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 / John Krige, Kai-Henrik Barth -- Gabrielle Hecht -- Itty Abraham -- Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper -- Alexis De Greiff -- Stuart W. Leslie, Robert Kargon -- Clark A. Miller -- John Krige -- Kai-Henrik Barth -- Jacob Darwin Hamblin -- Paul N. Edwards -- Jean-Paul Gaudilláere -- Sheila Jasanoff.

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Science--History.
Technology--History.
Nuclear warfare--Social aspects.
Medical geography--History.
Wetenschappen.
Internationale betrekkingen.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
Politieke macht.
Technologie.

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