TY  - GEN
T1  - Scientific Cosmology and International Orders
T2  - Cambridge studies in international relations.
A1  - Allan, Bentley, 1983-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1030819437
AB  - Scientific Cosmology and International Orders shows how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550. Allan argues that cosmological concepts arising from Western science made possible the shift from a sixteenth-century order premised upon divine providence to the present order centred on economic growth. As states and other international associations used scientific ideas to solve problems, they slowly reconfigured ideas about how the world works, humanity's place in the universe, and the meaning of progress. The book demonstrates the rise of scientific ideas across three cases: natural philosophy in balance of power politics, 1550–1815; geology and Darwinism in British colonial policy and international colonial orders, 1860–1950; and cybernetic-systems thinking and economics in the World Bank and American liberal order, 1945–2015. Together, the cases trace the emergence of economic growth as a central end of states from its origins in colonial doctrines of development and balance of power thinking about improvement.
OP  - 338
NO  - Discursive Reconfiguration: Evolutionary Developmentalism in the British Colonial Office, 1900-1935.
CN  - JZ1254
SN  - 9781108271431
SN  - 110827143X
SN  - 9781108241540
SN  - 1108241549
SN  - 1108265979
SN  - 9781108265973
SN  - 9781108416610
SN  - 1108416616
SN  - 9781108404006
SN  - 1108404006
KW  - Science and international relations.
KW  - Sciences et relations internationales.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - Science and international relations
KW  - History
ER  -