Techno-Diplomacy US-Soviet Confrontations in Science and Technology
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TECHNODIPLOMACY US-Soviet Confrontations in Science and Technology Glenn E. Schweitzer
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Schweitzer, Glenn E., 1930T echno-diplomacy: US-Soviet confrontations in science and technology 1 Glenn E. Schweitzer. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-306-43289-7 ISBN 978-1-4899-6046-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-6046-7 1. Science and state-United States. 2. Science and state-Soviet Union. 3. Technology and state-United States. 4. Technology and state-Soviet Union. 5. Science-International cooperation. 1. Title. Q127.U6S288 1989 89-8787 338.97306-dc20 CIP
© 1989 Glenn E. Schweitzer Originally published by P1enum Press, New York in 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989
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Preface
Techno-diplomacy \tek-nö-da-'plo-ma-se\ n. (1989) 1: the art and practice of conducting negotiations between countries with conflicting technological interests, 2: skill in handling scientific affairs without arousing hostility, 3: ability to resolve issues on the frontiers of science and technology in the direction of peace and not war: TACP
Should the United States help Mikhail Gorbachev succeed? The stakes are enorrnous. Our human values and our security are on the line. The USSR and the United States control most of the world's military power, adversarial powerthat is the product of science and technology. At the same time, our two countries have many common interests in using science and technology both to help raise living standards and to protect health and ecological resources on a global basis. Can the Ieaders of the two superpowers devise practical approaches for channeling more of the scientific energies of their countries into humanitarian endeavors and away from military pursuits? This is the challenge which must be met by policies of the two counV
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tries, policies which meet on the frontiers of science and technologyo This is the challenge of techno-diplomacy which can help to ensure that such policies steer our nations away from confrontation toward cooperation, for continued confrontation could Iead to war, while cooperation offersthebest hope for peaceo The radical changes underway in the Soviet Unionare driven to a large extent by the determination of the Soviet leadership to harness science and technology and thereby modernize a sputtering economyo The rewriting of history, the whittling away of the bureaucracy, the promotion of economic entrepreneurship, and the turning loose of artists and writers are all part of an unprecedented attempt to dramatically transform an entire society and to prevent the country from slipping further behind the technological and economic achievements of other nationso Resources are scarce and incentives to
