Technology and the New Diplomacy: The creation and control of EC industrial policy for semiconductors

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Technology and the New Diplomacy: The creation and control of EC industrial policy for semiconductors

LAWTON, Thomas C.

Title: Technology and the New Diplomacy: The creation and control of EC industrial policy for semiconductors

Author: LAWTON, Thomas C.

Date: 1997

Publisher: Aldershot, Avebury

Citation: Aldershot, Avebury, 1997

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/22582

ISBN: 9781859725238

Abstract:

In international relations, diplomacy operates within the parameters set by knowledge. The technology which knowledge brings shapes the rules of competition, and demarcates those with power from those without. A state's power within the international system of states, is in large part dictated by its access to knowledge. A geographically small state such as Japan can wield power within the system far beyond its size, due to its access to knowledge creation. A state which lacks direct access to knowledge, has little influence over the terms of a diplomatic bargain which it strikes with a knowledge-rich state. International diplomacy and inter-state relations revolve around the creation and control of knowledge.

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(Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1995.)

--Chapter 1 Introduction --1 Why semiconductors? 3 --2 Technology and technological change 5 --3 The New Diplomacy: an introduction 8 --4 Survey of the argument 11 --Chapter 2 Perspectives and tools , 16 --1 Setting the scene 16 --2 The EC perspective 17 --3 The firm perspective 27 --4 The international system perspective 33 --5 The theoretical agenda 43 --Chapter 3 Industry and government: the early years 47 --1 The development of semiconductor technology 48 --2 The commercial development of the semiconductor industry 52 --3 The loss of European competitiveness in semiconductor production 55 --4 The post-champion nature of the European based semiconductor industry 72 --Chapter 4 EC governance and policies for semiconductors 82 --1 The development of EC policy for semiconductors 84 --2 The firm-Commission bargain 84 --3 Why target electronics? 88 --4 Towards an understanding of European chip policy 90 --5 EC involvement in R&D 92 --6 Policy partnerships: the liberal policy mask 104 --7 The interventionist consensus 112 --8 EC strategic targeting of electronics 114 --9 Intra-Commission rivalries in the creation of electronics policy 116 --10 The main policy actors for electronics 120 --11 Policy and competitiveness 123 --Chapter 5 Firm strategy and European collaboration 133 --1 Corporate collaboration 134 --2 Corporate technology policy 138 --3 JESSI: a study in chip collaboration 142 --4 JESSI: the private sector participant perspective 150 --5 JESSI: a self-evaluation 166 --6 The restructuring of JESSI 168 --7 JESSI: critical conclusions 170 --8 Eureka/JESSI as frameworks for inter-firm collaboration 172 --9 Corporate motives for European collaboration: an assessment 177 --Chapter 6 Power and policy in the international system 192 --1 Government-industry collaboration in the United States 194 --2 SEMATECH: the domestic partnership 198 --3 Government-industry collaboration in Japan: the VLSI project 211 --4 International semiconductor trade policies and their impact on EC policy direction 218 --Chapter 7 Conclusions 240 --1 The creation of EC semiconductor policy 241 --2 The control of EC semiconductor policy 243 --3 Some consequences of EC semiconductor policy 245 --4 A neofunctionalist rationale for policy partnership 248 --5 Implications for theory 249 --Bibliography 254 --Index 276

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