Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War - A Transnational History

Sommario

Introduction Part I: Macrostructures and Superpowers 1. Cold War–Technological Innovation–Globalization: A Case Study of the Civil Aviation Sector 2. US and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–1978 3. The Second World’s "Technopolitics" in the Third World: Cold War and Global Challenges of Modernity in 1960s-1970s 4. Technology Transformation During the Cold War: The Case of Supersonic Gas Jet Targets at the National Accelerator Laboratory Part II: Agency of Smaller States 5. The Transnational Making of China’s Industrial Economy in the Early Cold War, 1949-1957 6. Finnish Icebreaker Diplomacy in the Cold War: Ships of Security, Prestige, and Welfare 7. The West German Energy Dilemma and Soviet Natural Gas Part III: From Air Age to Space Age 8. The 1963 "Interflung Affair" and the Cold War: Civil Aviation between Austria and East Germany 9. Anglo-Romanian Cooperation in Civil Aircraft Production: The Case of the Rombac Airliner, 1976-1993 10. The Evolution of US Space Weapons during the Cold War Afterword

Info autore

Wolfgang Mueller is professor of Russian history at the University of Vienna.
Peter Svik is Schrödinger fellow at the University of Vienna and Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva.

Riassunto

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wolfgang (University of Vienna) Svik Mueller
• Con la collaborazione di: Wolfgang Mueller (Editore), Mueller Wolfgang (Editore), Peter Svik (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032308678
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230867-8
• Pagine: 250
• Serie: Cold War History
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, General & world history, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, General and world history, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts