Engineering world society? Scientists, internationalism, and the advent of the Space Age

Stroikos, Dimitrios

doi:10.1057/s41311-017-0070-8

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“…As many authors have noted, states are guided by many considerations other than power in their decision-making, particularly in the fields of science and technology. (See [44] for a discussion of the relevance of commercial factors, [45] for an examination of the unifying nature of technical endeavors, and [46] for a complete overview.) For example, a competing account involves the claim that the pursuit of influence or prestige (rather than the pursuit of control) better describes the motivations of many actual nations.…”

Section: The Political Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program

Wright

Haramia²,

Swiney³

2023

Space Policy

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Section: The Political Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program

Wright

Haramia²,

Swiney³

2023

Space Policy

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“…14 Constructivist accounts of space cooperation have been valuable in this regard, but these studies have been few and far between. 15 They also tend to not problematize why space specifically became a policy venue for cooperation.…”

Section: An Ultrasocial Approachmentioning

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Outer space and the idea of the global commons

Cross

2021

International Relations

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Drawing upon fresh archival research and participant observation, the author traces the emergence and transformative idea of the non-weaponized and peaceful use of space from the 1920s to today. Building on this, the case study questions much of the common wisdom surrounding humans’ relationship with space over the past century. Although the beginnings of the Space Age are usually thought to have closely coincided with the Space Race beginning in 1955, the paper goes further back to the Spaceflight Movement of the 1920s and 30s, tracing the emergence of the idea of space as part of the global commons. This societal-level movement was highly transnational and collaborative in nature, and pushed for the achievement of human spaceflight decades before the technology existed, at the same time advocating for space as a peaceful domain for all of humankind. Using a new approach that also provides the basic ontological assumption for Model 3 of the special issue framework, the author argues that the impetus to engage in space exploration was fundamentally ‘ultrasocial’, defined as a human predisposition to be other-regarding, empathic, and inclined toward seeking wide-scale cooperation, even among strangers.

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“…As Little (1995: 15) noted, the ES emphasizes three parallel structures, each of which operates alongside one another and none of which has ontological priority: these are the anarchic interstate system, the intergovernmental institutions of international society, and the shared interhuman values and solidarities of world society. While earlier ES literature focused primarily on the interface between a (realist) interstate system and the (institutional-normative) society of states, recent ES scholars have paid greater attention to world society, the domain of interhuman solidarities and shared identities where civil society and SM are traditionally located, as depicted in figure 1 (Buzan, 2018;Buzan and Lawson, 2015;Stroikos, 2018).…”

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Social movements and international relations: a relational framework

Davies

Peña

2019

J Int Relat Dev

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Social movements are increasingly recognized as significant features of contemporary world politics, yet to date their treatment in international relations theory has tended to obfuscate the considerable diversity of these social formations, and the variegated interactions they may establish with state actors and different structures of world order. Highlighting the difficulties conventional liberal and critical approaches have in transcending conceptions of movements as moral entities, the article draws from two under-exploited literatures in the study of social movements in international relations, the English School and Social Systems Theory, to specify a wider range of analytical interactions between different categories of social movements and of world political structures. Moreover, by casting social movement phenomena as communications, the article opens international relations to consideration of the increasingly diverse trajectories and second-order effects produced by social movements as they interact with states, intergovernmental institutions, and transnational actors.

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Engineering world society? Scientists, internationalism, and the advent of the Space Age

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program

Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program

Outer space and the idea of the global commons

Social movements and international relations: a relational framework

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