Waqar H. Zaidi (Pakistan Lahore University of Management Sciences)

Technological Internationalism and World Order

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique study of technology and international relations, Zaidi's book explores early attempts at the governance of aviation and atomic energy through international organizations such as the United Nations. It speaks to growing interest in the international governance of powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons.

Produktdetails

• Science in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781108819190
• ISBN-10: 1108819192
• Artikelnr.: 66873448

Autorenporträt

Waqar H. Zaidi is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is also a Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton for 2020¿21 and Research Affiliate at the Future of Humanities Institute at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: machines of peace; 1. Invention, interdependence, and the
lag: conceptualizing international relations in the age of the machine; 2.
Controlling scientific war: international air police and the reinvention of
disarmament; 3. The shape of things to come: aviation, the League of
Nations, and the transformation of world order; 4. Air power for a United
Nations: the international air force during the Second World War; 5. Wings
for peace: planning for the postwar internationalization of civil aviation;
6. A battle for atomic internationalism: United States and the
international control of atomic energy; 7. A blessing in disguise: Britain
and the international control of atomic energy; Conclusion: science,
technology, and internationalism into the Cold War and beyond.