U.S.-Iran engagement in science, engineering, and health (2000-2009)
Subtitle: opportunities, constraints, and impacts
By: Glenn E. Schweitzer ; Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation ; Policy on Global Affairs ; National Research Council of the National Academies
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Office for Central Europe and Eurasia
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Science; International cooperation; Engineering; Medical sciences
Other titles: United States-Iran engagement in science, engineering, and health (2000-2009)
Description: Introduction -- Initiating engagement -- Workshops -- Exchanges, planning meetings, and special events -- Impacts and future directions.

"During the first decade of the 21st century, the National Academies, working with a number of partner organizations in Iran, carried out a program of U.S.-Iran engagement in science, engineering, and health (herein referred to as science engagement). This book reviews important aspects of the science engagement program, including: (a) objectives of the program, (b) opportunities and constraints in developing the program, and (c) scientific and political impacts of the activities. Suggestions for future activities that draw on the conclusions and recommendations that have emerged from workshops and other types of interactions are set forth. Of course, the political turmoil within Iran and uncertainties as to the direction of U.S.-Iran government-to-government relations will undoubtedly complicate initiation and implementation of new science engagement activities in the near term. At the same time, many American and Iranian participants and important government officials in the United States and Iran have believed that science engagement can contribute to the evolution of an improved political environment for development of less adversarial relations between the two governments."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.