Book ID: CBB182174269

Technological Internationalism and World Order: Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Search for International Peace, 1920–1950 (2021)

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Zaidi, Waqar H. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

Between 1920 and 1950, British and US internationalists called for aviation and atomic energy to be taken out of the hands of nation-states, and instead used by international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. An international air force was to enforce collective security and internationalized civil aviation was to bind the world together through trade and communication. The bomber and the atomic bomb, now associated with death and devastation, were to be instruments of world peace. Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on public and private discourse relating to the control of aviation and atomic energy, Waqar H. Zaidi highlights neglected technological and militaristic strands in twentieth-century liberal internationalism, and transforms our understanding of the place of science and technology in twentieth-century international relations.

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Authors & Contributors
Rory M. Miller
Leonardo Bandarra
Anna Konieczna
Melzer, Jürgen P.
Thomas C. Mills
Goedde, Petra
Concepts
International cooperation
International relations
Aeronautics; aviation
Science and politics
Peace movements
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
Modern
20th century, late
Places
United States
Japan
Great Britain
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Institutions
League of Nations
United Nations
UNESCO
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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