Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War

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.

'An excellent introduction to cutting edge historical work. Development and deployment of technology were essential to the conduct of the Cold War, and this volume shows how innovation and technological globalization transformed politics and economics with effects lasting up to our own time.' Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World History'The process of globalization and the technological changes that spawned it were heavily influenced by the Cold War. The essays edited by Peter Svik and Wolfgang Mueller shed valuable light on this complex topic, showing how the competitive and cooperative elements of the Cold War shaped the globalized world we live in today. Globalization would have happened even if there had been no Cold War, but this book helps us understand how the Cold War sped up that process and gave it its particular form. 'Mark Kramer, Harvard University, USA'This important Wolfgang Mueller and Peter Svik edited volume on "technopolitics" during the Cold War explores an unfortunately little known, but crucial dimension of the international history of relations between the communist world and the West. Using cutting-edge archival research, the international team of authors bring a series of fascinating case studies to the attention of Cold War historiography that illuminate the dynamics of technology transfer, East-West relations, and superpower competition.'Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University, USA

• 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