The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 1

Mayer, Maximilian; Carpes, Mariana; Knoblich, Ruth

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55007-2

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“…There is much debate on what science diplomacy means. International relation scholarship has traditionally placed science exogenous to theoretical discussions (Mayer et al, 2014), a picture that is slowly changing due to the political power that science can exercise in international negotiations, in face of global environmental uncertainties. Consequently, science diplomacy has emerged as a new field to understand the interplay between science and international relations, in particular where there are global, transborder, and regional issues of common concern or interest (Berkman, 2019;Flink and Rüffin, 2019).…”

Section: Progressive Evolution Of a New Concept: Science Diplomacymentioning

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The Importance of Ocean Science Diplomacy for Ocean Affairs, Global Sustainability, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science

Polejack

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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The ocean is highly impacted by human activities, and ambitious levels of science are urgently needed to support decision making in order to achieve sustainability. Due to the high cost and risk associated with ocean exploration and monitoring in time and space, vast areas of the oceanic social ecological system remain under-sampled or unknown. Governments have recognized that no single nation can on its own fill these scientific knowledge gaps, and this has led to a number of agreements to support international scientific collaboration and the exchange of information and capacity. This paper reviews current discussions on ocean science diplomacy, i.e., the intersection of science with international ocean affairs. Ocean science is intrinsically connected with diplomacy in supporting negotiations toward a more sustainable future. Diplomacy supports essential aspects of scientific work such as capacity building, technology and information/knowledge exchange, and access and sharing of research platforms. Ocean science diplomacy underlies the work of many intergovernmental organizations that provide scientific guidance, such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). To illustrate how critical science diplomacy is to global ocean affairs, this paper examines examples of the influence of ocean science diplomacy in UNCLOS. Furthermore, this paper discusses the utility of ocean science diplomacy in support of the UN 2030 agenda, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science.

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Section: Progressive Evolution Of a New Concept: Science Diplomacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Ocean Science Diplomacy for Ocean Affairs, Global Sustainability, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science

Polejack

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…In the OECD and EC cases, perceived barriers in the uptake of innovation are portrayed as resolvable by way of attending to a lack of engagement of society, insufficient standardization of soft governance "keys" and "principles," and a missing orientation of innovation toward social needs. Here, democracy is framed as a solution within the bounds of innovation and defined by the institutional rationales of international policy organizations, that is, democratic expression ought to take place within a regime of economic growth and globalized liberal markets in which the understanding of innovation as a force for global good is highly stabilized (Mayer, Carpes, and Knoblich 2014).…”

Section: A New Politics Of Deficit Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission

Frahm

Doezema

Pfotenhauer

2021

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Long presented as a universal policy-recipe for social prosperity and economic growth, the promise of innovation seems to be increasingly in question, giving way to a new vision of progress in which society is advanced as a central enabler of technoeconomic development. Frameworks such as “Responsible” or “Mission-oriented” Innovation, for example, have become commonplace parlance and practice in the governance of the innovation–society nexus. In this paper, we study the dynamics by which this “social fix” to technoscience has gained legitimacy in institutions of global governance by investigating recent projects at two international organizations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission, to mainstream “Responsible Innovation” frameworks and instruments across countries. Our analysis shows how the turn to societal participation in both organizations relies on a new deficit logic—a democratic deficit of innovation—that frames a lack of societal engagement in innovation governance as a major barrier to the uptake and dissemination of new technologies. These deficit politics enable global governance institutions to present “Responsible Innovation” frameworks as the solution and to claim authority over the coproduction of particular forms of democracy and innovation as intertwined pillars of a market-liberal international order.

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“…2015; Deudney, 2000Deudney, , 2018Mayer, 2014etc.). For their part, Global Studies experts have made a greater analytical effort addressing the role and impact of science and technology in the global system, analyzing how this affects the balance of global power (Note 19), the effect on climate change or the production of natural resources (Note 20) or its consequences in the process of economic globalization (Note 21).…”

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Building Bridges between Science, Technology, Innovation and Global Affairs: A New Graduate Program

Viterale¹

2020

GRHE

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The international system has changed rapidly in the last few decades, and Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) has become a new key factor in the world order of the 21st Century. The interaction between STI and global affairs has increased because of the relevance and impact of scientific and technological development over the main parameters of the international system. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of new approaches that examine this global rising phenomenon from the Global and International Studies perspective. This article raises the academic and pedagogical needs to build bridges between STI and Global and International Studies (GIS) and, especially, the lack of academic programs that focus on this intersection. Therefore, the main objectives of this research are to examine the pedagogical need in the intersection between STI and international relations and introduce a new and original pedagogical proposal. The result is a literature review that confirms the need for educational programs in STI and GIS, and the introduction of a new graduate program as an innovative educational contribution.

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The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 1

Cited by 31 publications

References 109 publications

The Importance of Ocean Science Diplomacy for Ocean Affairs, Global Sustainability, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science

The Importance of Ocean Science Diplomacy for Ocean Affairs, Global Sustainability, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science

Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission

Building Bridges between Science, Technology, Innovation and Global Affairs: A New Graduate Program

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