Waqar H. Zaidi

Technological Internationalism and World Order (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108873475
• Artikelnr.: 70909820

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.