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  1. Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy.Simone Turchetti & Matthew Adamson - 2023 - British Journal for the History of Science 56 (2):135-146.
    This special issue explores the power that images with a techno-scientific content can have in international relations. As we introduce the articles in the collection, we highlight how the study of this influence extends current research in the separate (but increasingly interacting) domains of history of science and technology, and political science. We then show how images of different types (photographs, cartoons and plots) can inform inter-state transactions through their public appeal alongside the better-studied dialogic practices of the diplomatic arena. (...)
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  • A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799).Emma Prevignano - 2022 - Centaurus 64 (4):889-916.
    In 1798, the National Institute and the French minister of foreign relations invited European countries to send delegations of science practitioners to Paris to finalise the values of the metre and the kilogram. This article reads the event as part of a wider attempt to establish the political relevance of international scientific consensus and include scientific exchanges in the diplomatic culture of post-revolutionary Europe. At the end of the 18th century, the scope and methods of both the sciences and diplomacy (...)
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  • Showcasing the international atom: the IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962.Matthew Adamson - 2023 - British Journal for the History of Science 56 (2):205-223.
    When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began operations in 1958, one of its first routine tasks was to create and circulate a brief non-technical periodical. This article analyses the creation of theIAEA Bulletinand its circulation during its first years. It finds that diplomatic imperatives both in IAEA leadership circles and in the networks outside them shaped the form and appearance of the bulletin. In the hands of the IAEA's Division of Public Information, the bulletin became an instrument of science (...)
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  • The Double Legacy of Bernalism in Science Diplomacy.Gerardo Ienna - 2022 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (4):602-624.
    Recent debates in the history of science aimed at reconstructing the history of scientific diplomacy have privileged the analysis of forms of diplomacy coming from above. Instead, the objective of this paper is to raise awareness of these debates by looking at attempts at scientific diplomacy from below. Such a shift in perspective might allow us to observe the impact of marginalized social agents on the construction of international diplomatic choices. This article particularly focuses attention on how the legacy of (...)
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  • The seismograph as a diplomatic object: The S oviet– A merican exchange of instruments, 1958–1964.Lif Lund Jacobsen, Irina Fedorova & Julia Lajus - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (2):277-295.
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  • On the road to S tockholm: A case study of the failure of Cold War international environmental initiatives ( Prague Symposium, 1971).Jiří Janáč & Doubravka Olšáková - 2021 - Centaurus 63 (1):132-149.
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  • Technology diplomacy in early Communist China: the visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 1952.Yue Liang - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-13.
    This article focuses on the 1952 visit to the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project, the first large-scale water infrastructure built on the Yangzi river after the founding of the People's Republic of China, by a foreign delegation from the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference. Serving as a form of technology diplomacy, this trip advanced two main purposes for the newly established country – to build up closer ties with ‘foreign friends’ who advocated international peace in the context of the Korean War, and to (...)
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  • Decentring histories of science diplomacy: cases from Asia.Gordon Barrett & Aya Homei - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-9.
    This special issue brings together a diverse set of cases from Asia with the aim of decentring established historical narratives about science diplomacy. With a critical perspective bringing together the bodies of literature in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and critical Asian Studies, we argue that these cases foreground a geopolitical history with multiple forms of sovereignty – often contested ones – and a range of political institutions and actors that enables us to revisit (...)
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  • Concluding conversation: decentring science diplomacy.Gordon Barrett, Claire Edington, Aya Homei, Kate Sullivan de Estrada & Zuoyue Wang - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-13.
    Gordon Barrett (GB): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor).
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