Screen LibraryThe global politics of science and technology. Vol. 1, Concepts from international relations and other disciplines /
An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance. This two-volume co...
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Springer-Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Heidelberg ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Global power shift
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An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global governance. This two-volume collection brings the debate about science and technology to the center of International Relations. It shows how integrating science and technology translates into novel analytical frameworks, conceptual approaches and empirical puzzles, and thereby offers a state-of-the-art review of various methodological and theoretical ways in which sciences and technologies matter for the study of international affairs and world politics. The authors not only offer a set of practical examples of research frameworks for experts and students alike, but also propose a conceptual space for interdisciplinary learning in order to improve our understanding of the global politics of science and technology. This first volume summarizes various time-tested approaches for studying the global politics of science and technology from an IR perspective. It also provides empirical, theoretical, and conceptual interventions from geography, history, innovation studies, and science and technology studies that indicate ways to enhance and rearticulate IR approaches. In addition, several interviews advance possibilities of multi-disciplinary collaboration. The second volume raises a plethora of issue areas, actors, and cases under the umbrella notion techno-politics. Distinguishing between interactional and co-productive perspectives, it outlines a toolbox of analytical frameworks that transcend technological determinism and social constructivism. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9783642550065 (v. 1) : 3642550061 (v. 1) |
| Index Number: | JZ1254 |
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D81-05 N05 |
| Call Number: | N05/G562/v.1 |
| Contents: | Volume 1: The global Politics of Science and Technology: An Introduction / Maximilian Mayer, Mariana Carpes, and Ruth Knoblich -- From Expert Communities to Epistemic Arrangements: Situating Expertise in International Relations / Christian Bueger -- Nuclear Science and Technology: The Race Between Weapons and Controls /Joseph F. Pilat --International Competition and Nanotechnology Policies: Discourse, Hegemony, and International Political Economy / Joscha Wullweber -- Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age: The Coming Decades / Chris C. Demchak and Peter J. Dombrowski -- Conceptualizing the Ambivalent Role of Technology in International Relations: Between Systemic Change and Continuity / Stefan Fritsch -- Petroleum Supply, Marine Transportation Technology, and the Emerging International Order of the Post World War One Period / Peter J. Hugill -The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights: Much Ado About Nothing? / Daniele Archibugi and Andrea Filippetti --Telegraph Technology and Administrative Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century / Douglas Howland -- Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science / Sheila Jasanoff --Technological Collaboration and Nuclear Proliferation: A Transnational Approach / John Krige -- Specialist Knowledge, Carbon Democracy, and Local Technicalities as Basis for the "International": An Interview with Timothy Mitchell / Peer Schouten --The Triple Helix, the Complexity of Technological Innovations, and the Decomposition of National Innovation Systems: An Interview with Loet Leydesdorff / Ruth Knoblich -- Gaia Theory, Ecovillages, and IR Taking Material Limits Seriously: An Interview with Karen Litfin / Maximilian Mayer - The Role of Science and Technology in the Dynamics of Global Change and the Significance of International Knowledge Cooperation in the Post-Western World: An Interview with Dirk Messner / Ruth Knoblich -- Nuclear Ontologies, Technopolitics in Postcolonial Spaces, and the Cold War as Transnational History: An interview with Gabrielle Hecht / Maximilian Mayer. ; Volume Two: A Toolbox for Studying the Global Politics of Science and Technology / Maximilian Mayer, Mariana Carpes, and Ruth Knoblich -- A Bullock Cart on Nuclear-Powered Wheels: Nuclear Science, Indigeneity and the National Development Narrative in India / Jayita Sarkar -- The Politics of European Collaboration in Big Science / Olof Hallonsten -- Of Red Threads and Green Dragons: Austrian Sociotechnical Imaginaries About STI Cooperation with China / Ruth Müller and Nina Witjes -- Liberal Preferences as an Explanation for Technology Choices. The Case of Military Robots as a Solution to the West's Casualty Aversion / Niklas Schörnig --The "Tight Oil Revolution" and the Misinterpretation of the Power of Technology / Susanne Peters and Werner Zittel --The Socio-Technical Construction of Technology in German-Argentine ICT Cooperation /Alejandra S. Kern and Hernán E. Thomas -- Hidden in Plain View: Exploring the Knowledge Power of States / Katharina C. Below, Sarah Herweg, Ruth Knoblich, and Krystin Unverzagt -- Conflict and Cooperation in the Development of US-China Relations in Science and Technology: Empirical Observations and Theoretical Implications / Richard P. Suttmeier and Denis Fred Simon -- Making and Remaking the Measurement of Science and Technology: The International Dimension / Benoî Godin and Joseph Lane -- Wither Anarchy? Harvesting the "Global" Bio-tech Body, Indian Markets and Biomedical Technologies / Anna M. Agathangelou -- International Relations, Cybersecurity, and Content Analysis: A Constructivist Approach / Johan Eriksson and Giampiero Giacomello -- Information Technology Challenges for Energy and Environmental Policy Research / Sean S. Costigan and Erica M. Dingman -- Global Diabetes Encounters: Accounting for Health Technologies in the Global / Annegrete Juul Nielsen and Henriette Langstrup -- Chukudu Politics: The Relevance of Infrastructural Absences for Governmental Power and State Failure in the Post-Colonial world / Peer Schouten -- The Power of Large-Scale Interactions Through Information Technologies and Changes in Cultural Identity Politics / J.P. Singh -- How Much Is Enough? The Politics of Technology and Weaponless Nuclear Deterrence / Anne Harrington and Matthias Englert. |