With strings attached: Gift-giving to the International Atomic Energy Agency and US foreign policy

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作者
Rentetzi, Maria [1 ]
机构
[1] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nuremberg, Chair Sci Technol & Gender Studies, Bismarckstr 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
International Atomic Energy Agency; Technoscientific diplomatic gift; Mobile radioisotope laboratories; Nuclear history; Gift diplomacy; COLD-WAR; SCIENCE; PEACE; WORLD;
D O I
10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100754
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
In 1958 the United States of America offered two mobile radioisotope laboratories to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as gifts. For the USA, supplying the IAEA with gifts was not only the cost of "doing business" in the new nuclear international setting of the Cold War, but also indispensable in maintaining authority and keeping the upper hand within the IAEA and in the international regulation of nuclear energy. The transformation of a technoscientific artefact into a diplomatic gift with political strings attached for both giver and receiver, positions the lab qua gift as a critical key that simultaneously unlocks the overlapping histories of international affairs, Cold War diplomacy, and postwar nuclear science. Embracing political epistemology as my primary methodological framework and introducing the gift as a major analytic category, I emphasize the role of material objects in modeling scientific research and training in a way that is dictated by diplomatic negotiations, state power, and international legal arrangements. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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