Osiris
Volume 21 (2006)
Historical Perspectives on Science, Technology, and International Affairs

Guest edited by
John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kai-Henrik Barth (Georgetown University)

[as of October 11, 2005]

JOHN KRIGE and KAI-HENRIK BARTH: Science, Technology, and International Affairs: New Perspectives

 

IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUPERPOWERS

GABRIELLE HECHT: Negotiating Global Nuclearities: Apartheid, Decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA

ITTY ABRAHAM: The Ambivalence of Nuclear Histories

RONALD E. DOEL and KRISTINE C. HARPER: Prometheus Unleashed: Science as a Diplomatic Weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

ALEXIS DE GREIFF: The Politics of Non-cooperation: the Boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

STUART W. LESLIE and ROBERT KARGON: Exporting MIT: Science, Technology and Nation-Building in India and Iran

 

US SCIENCE AND FOREIGN POLICY

CLARK MILLER: The Origins of Scientific Internationalism in Postwar U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1950

JOHN KRIGE: Atoms for Peace and Scientific Internationalism

KAI-HENRIK BARTH: Catalysts of Change: Scientists as Transnational Arms Control Advocates in the 1980s

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION

PAUL N. EDWARDS: Meteorology a Infrastructural Globalism

JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIERE: Globalizing the Local: Genes, Patents, and Regulation in the New Biotech World

SHEILA JASANOFF: Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science

 

EYEWITNESSES

CHARLES WEISS: Science and Technology at the World Bank, 1968-83

ROBERT L. GALLUCCI: Negotiating the Nuclear with North Korea: An Insider Perspective