The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures

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Alan 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.

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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
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169
Joanna Spear
197
the implications for international relations
213
Bibliography227
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Index253
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