|9780822968436|Power, Conflict, and Cooperation from Aviation to AI|Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. Revolutionary Technologies and Global Governance offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of research and teaching in political economy and international security, Michael E. Smith develops a new analytical framework for understanding the global governance of technological change. Through detailed case studies and interviews with US and EU policymakers, Smith examines how major technologies provoke disputes over power,…

|9780822949268|Power, Conflict, and Cooperation from Aviation to AI|Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. Revolutionary Technologies and Global Governance offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of research and teaching in political economy and international security, Michael E. Smith develops a new analytical framework for understanding the global governance of technological change. Through detailed case studies and interviews with US and EU policymakers, Smith examines how major technologies provoke disputes over power,…

|9780822968061|An Environmental History of Labor and Migration|On June 23, 1946, Italy and Belgium signed the “men in exchange for coal” agreement, in which Italy committed to sending fifty thousand workers each year to the Belgian coal mines, and Belgium pledged to supply a few thousand tons of coal to Italy each month. The first treaty of its kind, the agreement paved the way for the European Coal and Steel Community, a precursor of the European Union. In Italian Lives, Belgian Coal, Daniele Valisena explores the relationship between labor migration, coal extraction, and environmental transformation in the Belgian coalfields of Wallonia….

|9780822949060|An Environmental History of Labor and Migration|On June 23, 1946, Italy and Belgium signed the “men in exchange for coal” agreement, in which Italy committed to sending fifty thousand workers each year to the Belgian coal mines, and Belgium pledged to supply a few thousand tons of coal to Italy each month. The first treaty of its kind, the agreement paved the way for the European Coal and Steel Community, a precursor of the European Union. In Italian Lives, Belgian Coal, Daniele Valisena explores the relationship between labor migration, coal extraction, and environmental transformation in the Belgian coalfields of Wallonia….

|9780822967934|Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914|Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernized, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage. Haussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors, under streets, or in peripheral districts. In the forty years after 1870, a period that Peter Soppelsa calls “secondary Haussmannization,” Parisians inverted them—revealed their hidden components to scrutinize their workings and costs…