LSE School of Public Policy: Chip War: the battle to control semi-conductors with Chris Miller

With Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History at The Fletcher School

Chris Miller discusses his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, with Alexander Evans.

Chip War describes the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world’s most critical resource—semiconductor technology—with the West and China increasingly in conflict. Many would be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. At stake is not only economic prosperity but also military superiority.

Our Speaker and Chair:

Chris Miller is an Associate Professor of International History at The Fletcher School and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip.

Alexander Evans is Professor in Practice of Public Policy at LSE whose career in diplomacy included being Director Cyber at the Foreign Office where he was the U.K.’s chief international cyber policy negotiator.

More about this event:

The Department of International Relations at LSE is now in it’s 95th year – one of the oldest as well as largest IR departments in the world, with a truly international reputation.

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You can order the book, Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney.

This piece is republished from LSE School of Public Policy.