ABSTRACT
Science and technology are also key elements of many global issues that can be addressed only by international cooperation in which developing countries must play an important part. The following pages briefly outline several tentative applications of this approach to some of the thorny problems confronting US diplomats in areas of science, technology and development. For convenience, the author distinguishes four broad, and in some cases overlapping, mechanisms for US bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with less developed countries, such as Bilateral agreements with countries of geopolitical importance, Development assistance programs, Extension of domestic programs into the international sphere, and Programs set up in pursuit of global policy objectives. The United States has signed agreements of bilateral cooperation in science and technology with developing countries as diverse as New Zealand, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Spain.
