The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global FuturesAlan M. Russell, John Vogler Manchester University Press, 2000 - 259 pages This work provides a wide-ranging review of the international and global consequences of advances in the science of biotechnology. It brings together experts in global conflict, international political economy, busines, ethics and gender to assess the impact of biotechnology on the political economy of agriculture, biodiversity, the environment and North-South relations as well as biological warfare. The diversity of biotechnology is matched by the diversity of its international impacts - and this in turn requires a broad expertise to make sense of the issues. |
Contents
Science ethics and gender | 11 |
dimensions Hugh Dyer | 30 |
revolution Charlotte Bretherton and Karen Stevenson | 44 |
International political economy trade and environment | 63 |
An international political economy perspective of | 100 |
An international environmental regime for biotechnology | 123 |
Robert Falkner | 142 |
prospects and responses | 157 |
11 | 169 |
Joanna Spear | 197 |
the implications for international relations | 213 |
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