Charles Weiss

The Survival Nexus

Science, Technology, and World Affairs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The impact of science and technology on world affairs is shaped by politics, economics, business, ethics, law, psychology, and culture. This nexus is a neglected aspect of international affairs. It cuts across and unites diverse issues critical to human survival: climate change, global health, nuclear weapons, Internet governance, cybersecurity, jobs, competitiveness, poverty, hunger, and the management of new technologies like autonomous weapons, hypersonic missiles, geoengineering, and gene drivers. Advances in science and technology promise both great benefits and critical threats. Appropriate policies can stimulate and guide scientific and technological advance to create new ways to achieve a healthy environment, sustainable energy systems, equitable growth, full employment, and reduced poverty. But we are allowing technology to push ourselves into uncharted and dangerous territory. Long-standing modes of international cooperation are under increasing pressure, and we are making too little effort to strengthen and update them. Nor are we building the strong global norms that we need to manage new technologies. Underlying all of the global problems discussed in this book are considerations of basic ethics: our willingness to respect scientific facts, to act today to forestall long-run dangers, and to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits, costs, and risks from advances in science and technology"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780190946265
• ISBN-10: 0190946261
• Artikelnr.: 61996199

Autorenporträt

Charles Weiss is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he directed the Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. He has a BA, summa cum laude, and a PhD in chemical physics and biochemistry, both from Harvard University. Weiss was the first Science and Technology Advisor to the World Bank. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has taught at Princeton University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Sao Paulo, Xing Hua University, and the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. Weiss has also advised governments and lectured in more than two dozen countries. He is coeditor of Technology, Finance, and Development and Mobilizing Technology for Development, and he is co-author of Technological Innovation in Legacy Sector and Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution.