Lecture: Science, Technology and US Hegemony
Posted by Tim Stevens on 14 May 2008
For those within reach of Manchester, UK, this lecture could be interesting:
The Seventh Cardwell Memorial Lecture in the History of Technology
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Professor John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Science, technology and American hegemony”
Tuesday May 27 2008, 5pm
Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester, UK
This talk will describe how scientific and technological exchange between the United States and Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s served as an instrument of American foreign policy. The focus will be on domains in which there is a porous barrier between the civil and the military, notably nuclear and missile technologies. It will show how the US, deploying its technological leadership in an asymmetric field of force, tried both to strengthen and to channel European technological capabilities, steering them down avenues that cohered with its commercial, political and military interests in the region.
More details here.
