Title Science and American foreign relations since World War II / Greg Whitesides, University of Colorado, Denver

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge studies in US foreign relations Cambridge studies in US foreign relations. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Scientific Universalism, Privilege, and National Service; Applied Sciences, Commerce, and American Foreign Relations to World War I; Science, World War I, and Interwar Modernity; 1 The Battle of the Laboratories; Nation Bound; Science and American Foreign Relations before World War II; OSRD and the Manhattan Project; The Atomic Bomb and Questions After; At Loose Ends; Postwar Institutions and Internationalism; Atomic Energy and Espionage US-Soviet Conflict over the WHOThe KR Affair and a Scientific Iron Curtain; Rebound; Science in Occupied Germany; Science in Occupied Japan; Science and European Reconstruction; 2 Science Contained; Co-Option; American Science in the Early Cold War; McCarthyism and the Global Scientific Community; Cooperation; American Nuclear Diplomacy: Atoms for Peace; The European Center for Nuclear Research (or CERN); The International Geophysical Year; The Freedom of Space and Sputnik; Competition; Reorganization at Home; American Diplomacy after Sputnik; The Moon Landing The Legacy of Early Cold War Scientific Competition3 The Quiet War; Modern Commitments; The Background to Point Four; The Domestic and International Response; Point Four; On Point; Three Decades of Assistance to Iran; An Evolving Mix of Programs, Goals, and Participants; The Soviet Challenge in the Developing World; The Alliance for Progress; Demographic Containment; Global Health and the Malaria Eradication Program; The Mexican Agricultural Program, the FAO, and PL-480 Food Aid; The Green Revolution in India, the Philippines, and Vietnam; Population Controls Legacies of Cold War Scientific and Technical Assistance4 The Crossing Point; Eruption; The Environmental Movement, Vietnam War, and Collapse of Consensus; The International Biological Program and Global Governance; Market Biology; The Legal and Scientific Background to Biotechnology; Interferon, the Geopolitics of Overinvestment, and American Diplomacy; The G-77, Genetics, and the ISTC; Legalization and Tension with Allies and the Developing World; 5 Reorientation; Heavenly Politics; Satellite Communications and American Diplomacy; Science and Détente with the Soviet Union Science and the Collapse of DétenteWalking on Two Legs; The Collapse of US-Chinese Scientific Relations, 1950-1972; Scientific Exchanges and Revolutionary Resistance; Markets and Anti-communist Resistance; Scientific and Technical Relations after Normalization; Petroscience; US-Iranian Relations from the Embargo to the Revolution; JECOR and American Assistance to Saudi Arabia; US-Israeli Scientific Relations; 6 Globalization; We Are Their Allies; The G7 Science Initiative; Space Station Freedom; The Strategic Defense Initiative; Scientific Relations with China, Saudi Arabia, and Israel Summary The sciences played a critical role in American foreign policy after World War II. From atomic energy and satellites to the green revolution, scientific advances were central to American diplomacy in the early Cold War, as the United States leveraged its scientific and technical pre-eminence to secure alliances and markets. The growth of applied research in the 1970s, exemplified by the biotech industry, led the United States to promote global intellectual property rights. Priorities shifted with the collapse of the Soviet Union, as attention turned to information technology and environmental sciences. Today, international relations take place within a scientific and technical framework, whether in the headlines on global warming and the war on terror or in the fine print of intellectual property rights. Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II provides the historical background necessary to understand the contemporary geopolitics of science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019) Subject Science and international relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century Science and international relations -- United States -- History -- 21st century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Diplomatic relations Science and international relations SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108359412 1108359418 9781108303965 110830396X

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