Science and Technology Diplomacy, Volume II: A Focus on the Americas with Lessons for the World

The world is an ever shrinking place when it comes to commerce, resources, and the environment. International cooperation and teamwork in research, development, and joint engineering and scientific projects is more imperative now than at any time in the past. This important new 3-volume book on the interdependence of diplomacy, science and engineering will offer insights on best practices, reinforced with illuminating case studies. It will show the importance of developing structures that produce the best science and provide the best information to policy makers so that they in turn can make informed and successful decisions. This second volume shows how science diplomacy and policy can provide support for collaborative national and international science in such fields as climate change, space exploration, and medical advancement