science and technology in international affairs Krige, John. Barth, Kai-Henrik. text bibliography ilu Chicago, Ill University of Chicago Press c2006 2006 monographic eng

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iii, 309 p. ; 26 cm. 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 Gaudilláere -- Biotechnology and empire: the global power of seeds and science / Sheila Jasanoff. edited by John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth. Includes bibliographical references and index. Science History Technology History Nuclear warfare Social aspects Medical geography History Wetenschappen Internationale betrekkingen Buitenlandse betrekkingen Politieke macht Technologie Q125 G562 2006 327 30.30 89.70 0226454045 9780226454047 EUW 060901 20230410132731.0 54075