Courting Science: Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century

By Damon V Coletta and Damon V. Coletta

In Courting Science, Damon Coletta offers a novel explanation for the decline of American leadership in world affairs. Whether the American Century ends sooner rather than later may depend on America's capacity for self-reflection and, ultimately, self-restraint when it comes to science, technology, and engineering. Democracy's affinity for advanced technology has to be balanced against scientific research and progress as a global enterprise. In an era of rising challengers to America's lead in the international order and an increasingly globalized civil society, a "Scientific State" has a better chance of extending its dominance. In order to draw closer to this ideal, though, the United States will have to reconsider its grand strategy. It must have a strategy that scrutinizes how tightly it constrains, how narrowly it directs, and how far it trusts American scientists. If given the opportunity, scientists have the potential to lead a second American Century through domestic science and technology policy, international diplomacy, and transnational networks for global governance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080479894X
• ISBN13: 9780804798945
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"