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Structuring Economic Advantage in the Life Sciences Industry: U.S. Power and Legal Strategy
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Shelley L. Hurt
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
Graduate Faculty
New School for Social Research
Panel Title: “Food Fights:
The Political Economy of Nature, Resources and the Body under Empire”
International Studies Association Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 1-5, 2005
Friday, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Paper Title:
Agricultural Biotechnology Under Empire:
Historical Lessons from the Nixon Presidency, 1969-1971*
Biotechnology represents a strategic resource for both the military and corporate sectors of the U.S. empire. While the history of biotechnology’s dual-use functions remain obscured by scholarship which focuses on either biological weapons or on the biotechnology industry, this paper shows how the two are intertwined. I argue that the agricultural biotechnology’s research and development interests in genetically engineered food developed out of America’s Weapons Program after President Nixon converted it into the Biological Research Program. To understand this conversion process, this paper examines a state-led industrial strategy surrounding pesticides research as a case study. Through historical analysis and archival evidence, this paper details these developments between 1969-1971. The purpose in exploring the origins of the agricultural biotechnology industry is to shed light on the political economy of food. In so doing, it has implications for a broader understanding of contemporary debates over international intellectual property rights and world food security.
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Please note the title change from the one listed in the program. This paper is a draft. Please do not cite
without author’s permission. ## email not listed ##
The author thanks Herman M. Schwartz and Ronnie D. Lipschutz for encouragement on this project. The author also thanks Sam Rushay, archivist at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, and Barbara Selby, Government Documents Librarian at the University of Virginia. Final thanks goes to the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the New School for Social Research for their financial support.
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Shelley L. Hurt
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
Graduate Faculty
New School for Social Research
Panel Title: “Food Fights:
The Political Economy of Nature, Resources and the Body under Empire”
International Studies Association Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 1-5, 2005
Friday, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Paper Title:
Agricultural Biotechnology Under Empire:
Historical Lessons from the Nixon Presidency, 1969-1971*
Biotechnology represents a strategic resource for both the military and corporate sectors
of the U.S. empire. While the history of biotechnology’s dual-use functions remain
obscured by scholarship which focuses on either biological weapons or on the
biotechnology industry, this paper shows how the two are intertwined. I argue that the
agricultural biotechnology’s research and development interests in genetically engineered
food developed out of America’s Weapons Program after President Nixon converted it
into the Biological Research Program. To understand this conversion process, this paper
examines a state-led industrial strategy surrounding pesticides research as a case study.
Through historical analysis and archival evidence, this paper details these developments
between 1969-1971. The purpose in exploring the origins of the agricultural
biotechnology industry is to shed light on the political economy of food. In so doing, it
has implications for a broader understanding of contemporary debates over international
intellectual property rights and world food security.
*
Please note the title change from the one listed in the program. This paper is a draft. Please do not cite
without author’s permission. ## email not listed ##
The author thanks Herman M. Schwartz and Ronnie D. Lipschutz for encouragement on this project. The
author also thanks Sam Rushay, archivist at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, and Barbara Selby,
Government Documents Librarian at the University of Virginia. Final thanks goes to the Miller Center of
Public Affairs and the New School for Social Research for their financial support.
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