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  • 1 - Invention, Interdependence, and the Lag

  • Waqar H. Zaidi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
  • Book:
    Technological Internationalism and World Order
    Published online:
    25 May 2021
    Print publication:
    03 June 2021, pp 19-48
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    This chapter explores the role science and technology played in ideas and writings on international relations between 1920 and 1950. The chapter highlights the pervasiveness of notions such as the technically driven global integration, the 'machine age', 'scientific warfare', and 'cultural lag' in the interwar years, and argues that internationalist engagement with science and technology was broader and deeper than historians have hitherto appreciated. It contextualizes these motifs within the international politics of their time, and shows how they traversed the Second World War, changed but still intact, into the postwar years, where they were incorporated into new of theories of international relations (dealing with, for example, atomic weapons).