‘Science diplomacy’ (SD) appeared at the beginning of the present millennium as a new vocabulary and concept to describe some of the contemporary interactions between science and technology (S&T) on one hand and foreign affairs on the other. SD finds
Decolonizing Science Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic’s COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare systems globally to handle a dramatic surge in healthcare utilization while also taxing available testing resources. In the context of healthcare systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, COVID-19 added to the existing burden of
Friends in fission: US–Brazil relations and the global stresses of atomic energy, 1945–1955
This article considers a relatively unknown episode in the early Cold War that involved the US and Brazil, as well as a number of other countries. From 1950, the leading figure in Brazil’s nuclear effort, Admiral Álvaro Alberto, established amicable