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This essay will address the developments in the literature on U.S. foreign relations from the perspectives of technology and the environment in the period since 1941. Only in the past fifteen years or so have diplomatic historians generally recognized these to be fruitful topics worth exploring at their intersections with foreign relations. Because of the comparative newness of such perspectives within the field, the rich debates or competing schools of thought that mark the literature on other topics have not yet developed. Therefore, a thematic approach to this area offers perhaps the best method to explore the principal ways that foreign relations historians have been thinking about technology and the environment in the global economy since mid-century. We can categorize this scholarship as dealing with weapons, energy, communications, transportation, export control, modernization theory, scientific expertise, and the environment. Because of space limitations, much of what follows in this essay is by necessity from a U.S. perspective. Nevertheless, the interconnectedness of the world means that multinational, multilingual, and multiarchival explorations of these topics are both ongoing and important in their own right.
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