CONTENTS 



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I. Introduction 611 



Technology as the Underpinning of Diplomacy 611 



Contemporary Importance of Technology 612 



Pace 613 



Size — 613 



Complexity 614 



Variety or Scope 615 



Range and Pervasiveness of Impacts 615 



National Infrastructures of Technological Growth 616 



Interactions of Technology With Diplomacy 617 



Institutional Matters 618 



Substantive Technological Matters 618 



Diplomatic Need for a Coherent Policy Toward Technological 



Change 619 



II. Historical Influence of Technology on Diplomacy 619 



The Industrial Revolution as a Global Process 620 



British and German Technological Supremacy 620 



Technological Support for Germany's Struggle for Power 621 



U.S. Rise to Technological Maturity 622 



Trends in Industrial Research and Scientific Management 623 



Maturing of the American Technological Posture 623 



Diplomatic Implications of U.S. Technological Maturity 624 



Frustration of U.S. Efforts to "Wield Technological Power 626 



III. Trends in Contemporarv Technologv 627 



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Achievement of Overwhelming Nuclear Force 



The Problem of Stabilizing Deterrence 



Paramountcy of Offense 



A Dissenting View of Deterrent Stability 



The Diplomatic Significance of Space Technology 633 



The Space Race With the Soviet Union 634 



Measures of Progress in Space Technology 635 



Diplomatic Aspects of the Space Race 635 



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Communications Satellites 



Feasible Functions of Surveillance Satellites 



Weather Forecasting by Satellite 



Earth Resources Satellite Surveys 



Growing Importance of Space-Diplomacy 



The Interaction of Agricultural Technology With Diplomacy 640 



Modern Contrast With Jeffersonian Ideal 641 



Political and Economic Trends 642 



Some Diplomatic Consequences of Agricultural Change 643 



Supporting Elements of National Technological Change 645 



Different Views of "Infrastructure" 645 



Education and Training 646 



Health 647 



Power 648 



Transportation 648 



Communications 649 



International A.spects of Infrastructure 650 



Recapitulation : Diplomatic Consequences of Technology 651 



IV. The Internationalization of Technology 652 



Assessment of National and International Technology 652 



International Aspects of Technology Assessment 654 



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