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SUMMARY:The greening alliance: environment\, development and the North-Atl
 antic Treaty Organization - Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Scholars focussing on 20th century international development p
 rogrammes have revealed how they often aligned to a diplomacy agenda (espe
 cially during the Cold War) and modernist stances underscoring the merits 
 of science and technology in treating under-development. But NATO\, the fo
 remost defence alliance in the Western world\, has so far been virtually a
 bsent from these reflections. This paper considers how\, from the late 196
 0s and following one of its major crises\, development and environmental d
 egradation took centre-stage in debates within the alliance. And it docume
 nts attempts to mobilize its member-states to either economic assistance o
 r environmental protection schemes. Notably both types of intervention wer
 e tied to the promotion of novel scientific research\, and especially inte
 rnational collaborative projects. The paper concludes that while eventuall
 y NATO opted for an environmental agenda\, its 'greening' was actually a p
 olitical restoration project rather than a true attempt to embrace environ
 mentalism.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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