SCIENCEWORLDORDER

"'Science and World Order': Uses of science in plans for international government, 1899-1950."

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT 

 Organization address address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6
city: MAASTRICHT
postcode: 6200 MD

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Merle
Cognome: Achten
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 64670 5509
Fax: +31 433884917

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Netherlands [NL]
 Totale costo 359˙081 €
 EC contributo 359˙081 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-08-01   -   2017-07-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT

 Organization address address: Minderbroedersberg 4-6
city: MAASTRICHT
postcode: 6200 MD

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Merle
Cognome: Achten
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 64670 5509
Fax: +31 433884917

NL (MAASTRICHT) coordinator 359˙081.90

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era    international    science    world    history    university    political   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Objectives: In this project I seek to understand the role of science in plans for international government in the first half of the twentieth century. In an era of two world wars, international crisis and rampant nationalism, the rationality, neutrality and efficiency of science seemed to offer the most promising guide to better international relations to several political thinkers. Belief in a scientific world order informed an array of initiatives, including the influential British writer H.G. Wells’ campaign for a World State, the creation of UNESCO and the ‘Universal Science’ manifestation at the World Exhibition in Mussolini’s Rome.

How the objectives will be achieved: Using case-studies as the empirical basis of my research, this project seeks to uncover and historicise a number of these initiatives across the political spectrum and in different national contexts. For this purpose I will combine my own background in the history of science with training in international history at the Center for International History of Columbia University, New York.

Relevance to the Work Programme: The project will bring the fields of history of science and international history together in novel ways, which will open up new lines of research in the ideological uses of science. This will enhance my international research profile and put me in a leading position at the return host, Maastricht University, where I will connect the research programmes ‘Science and Technology Studies’ and ‘Politics and Culture of Europe’. It will benefit the ERA by reflecting on the very meaning of the idea of a ‘knowledge-society’. And it will enrich public debate on the role of technocracy in the EU, via media contributions and discussion for a with policy makers.'

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