Introduction: machines of peace; 1. Invention, interdependence, and the lag: conceptualizing international relations in the age of the machine; 2. Controlling scientific war: international air police and the reinvention of disarmament; 3. The shape of things to come: aviation, the League of Nations, and the transformation of world order; 4. Air power for a United Nations: the international air force during the Second World War; 5. Wings for peace: planning for the postwar internationalization of civil aviation; 6. A battle for atomic internationalism: United States and the international control of atomic energy; 7. A blessing in disguise: Britain and the international control of atomic energy; Conclusion: science, technology, and internationalism into the Cold War and beyond.
Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.
Waqar H. Zaidi is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is also a Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton for 2020–21 and Research Affiliate at the Future of Humanities Institute at the University of Oxford.
'In his profound and thoroughly researched study of how the coming
of aeroplanes and the atomic bomb inspired new thinking about
global peace through the international control of these inventions,
S. Waqar H. Zaidi offers a masterclass in how the history of
internationalism should be written.' Joseph Maiolo, author
of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War,
1931-194
'The bomber and the bomb changed the world, but how did they change
thinking about international society? Zaidi's brilliantly original
study, places military technologies at the heart of the history of
20th-century internationalism. Connecting the interwar period with
the Cold War, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in
understanding both the ambition and the frustrations of the
internationalist project.' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a
Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
'Weaving together the histories of aviation and atomic energy,
Zaidi makes innovative contributions to scholarship on technology
and internationalism. He deftly analyzes how policymakers and
intellectuals, on both sides of the Atlantic, sought to transform
the airplane and the atomic bomb into catalysts of global order
rather than global catastrophe.' Jenifer Van Vleck, author of
Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
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