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The Power of Ideology
In this prodigiously researched book, Emanuel Adler addresses the
hotly contested issue of how developing nations can emerge from the
economic and technological tutelage of the developed world. Is the
dependence of Third World countries on multinational
corporations-especially in the realm of high technology-a permanent
fixture of an inherently unequal relationship? Or can it be managed
by the developing nations for their benefit? By a masterful
comparative study of the development of science and technology in
Argentina and Brazil, the author discusses governmental policies
that are effective in attaining autonomous technological
development. Professor Adler provides a useful corrective to the
structural theories of development that have up to now prevailed in
the study of international relations by demonstrating that
intellectual and technological elites play a far more significant
role in the success or failure of such governmental policies than
has hitherto been recognized. This title is part of UC Press's
Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1988.
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STEM the Tide
Proven strategies for reforming STEM education in America's schools, colleges, and universities. One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the twenty-first century, and President Obama places improvement in these areas at the center of his educational reform. What can be done to reverse this poor performance and to unleash America's wasted talent? David E. Drew has good news—and the tools America needs to keep competitive. Drawing on both academic literature and his own rich experience, Drew identifies proven strategies for reforming America's schools, colleges, and universities, and his comprehensive review of STEM education in the United States offers a positive blueprint for the future. These research-based strategies include creative and successful methods for building strong programs in science and mathematics education and show how the achievement gap between majority and minority students can be closed. A crucial measure, he argues, is recruiting, educating, supporting, and respecting America's teachers. Accessible, engaging, and hard hitting, STEM the Tide is a clarion call to policymakers, administrators, educators, and everyone else concerned about students' participation in the STEM fields and America's competitive global position.
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The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the \"digital divide\" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's \"show-case democracy\" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country studies.
Bert Hoffmann is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies.
Introduction Part I: Third World Development and NICT in Political Perspective 1. The New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT): Comparative Experiences and Present Disparities 2. NICT in Third World Development: Political Issues in a Transformed Telecommunications Regime Part II: Latin America's 'Mixed Model': Costa Rica 3. The Costa Rican Development Model and Its Telecommunications Regime 4. Active NICT Development by State Monopoly: A New Costa Rican Model? Part III: Latin America's 'Socialist Model': Cuba 5. Cuba's State-Socialist Development Model and Its Telecommunications Regime 6. From the Rejection of the Internet to the 'Informatization of Society': A Political Anatomy of Change 7. The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Conclusions in Comparative Perspective
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Technology and International Transformation
During an era in which the pace of technological change is unrelenting, understanding how international politics both shapes and is shaped by technology is crucial. Drawing on international relations theory, historical sociology, and the history of technology, Geoffrey L. Herrera offers an ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rich examination of the interrelation between technology and international politics. He explores the development of the railroad in the nineteenth century and the atomic bomb in the twentieth century to show that technologies do not stand apart from, but are intimately related to, even defined by, international politics.
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Unlocking Energy Innovation
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute plan for remaking America's energy innovation system by tapping the country's entrepreneurial strengths and regional diversity in both the public and private spheres. \"Business as usual\" will not fill the energy innovation gap. Only the kind of systemic, transformative changes to our energy innovation system described in this provocative book will help us avert the most dire scenarios and achieve a sustainable and secure energy future.
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