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  title info:
    title: International organization as technocratic utopia
  name:
    name part: Steffek, Jens
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 237 pages).
  abstract: As climate change and a pandemic pose enormous challenges to humankind, the concept of expert governance gains new traction. This book revisits the idea that scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers, rather than politicians or diplomats, should manage international relations. It shows that this technocratic approach has been a persistent theme in writings about international relations, both academic and policy-oriented, since the 19th century. The technocratic tradition of international thought unfolded in four phases which were closely related to domestic processes of modernization and rationalization. The pioneering phase lasted from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War. In these years, philosophers, law scholars, and early social scientists began to combine internationalism and ideals of expert governance. Between the two world wars, a utopian period followed that was marked by visions of technocratic international organizations that would have overcome the principle of territoriality. In the third phase, from the 1940s to the 1960s, technocracy became the dominant paradigm of international institution-building. That paradigm began to disintegrate from the 1970s onwards, but important elements remain until the present day. The specific promise of technocratic internationalism is its ability to transform violent and unpredictable international politics into orderly and competent public administration. Such ideas also had political clout. This book shows how they left their mark on the League of Nations, the functional branches of the United Nations system, and the European integration project.
  note: Jens Steffek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: International agencies
  subject:
    topic: Expertise
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: International Agencies
  subject:
    topic: Relations internationales
  subject:
    topic: Organisations internationales
  subject:
    topic: Savoir-faire
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: international relations
  subject:
    topic: international organizations
  subject:
    topic: International
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Intergovernmental Organizations
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Geopolitics
  subject:
    topic: Expertise
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: International agencies
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JZ1242 .S74 2021
  classification: 327
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    title info:
      title: International organization as technocratic utopia
    name:
      name part: Steffek, Jens.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021936012
    identifier: (OCoLC)1263810503
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    record creation date: 210801
    record change date: 20250425170033.4
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng