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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jens Steffek (Professor of Transnational Governance, Professor of Transnational Governance, Technical University of Darmstadt)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780192845573ISBN 10: 0192845578 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 12 August 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Technocratic Internationalism 2: Prophets of International Technocracy 3: Experts Without Borders 4: Transnational Planning 5: A Global New Deal 6: Working the Machinery 7: Disenchantment and Renewal ConclusionReviewsNot a small feat for a work of history, International Organization as Technocratic Utopia has its fingers on the pulse of our time...creative and thought-provoking * Jan Eijking, Journal of International Political Theory * Steffek's book should be praised for many aspects, starting from the originality and depth of his analysis... [it] represents a fantastic resource to think about the backlash against international organizations (and particular against its technocratic elements) in a historical perspective. * Margherita Melillo, Leiden Journal of International Law * Jens Steffek's book offers a fascinating analysis of the intellectual history of international organizations that offers many relevant insights to our discipline... He does so by tackling the question of why they do so - that is, 'how it happened that people came to believe in the virtues of global bureaucracies in the first place'. * There isn't a reviewer name, Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press * a rich intellectual history of 'technocratic internationalism', as a unique tradition of internationalist thought originating amongst European thinkers...an original and thought-provoking history of intellectuals' advocacy for the rule of expert in the 19th and 20th centuries...shedding light on the life and functioning of 'technocratic inter nationalism' beyond its familiar liberal origin and across various strands of politics...Steffek has masterfully explored technocratic inter nationalism in the thoughts of anti-capitalist intellectuals. * Negar Mansouri * International Organization as Technocratic Utopia measures as an unqualified success. This is compulsory reading for anyone interested in international organizations (plural) as well as international organization (singular). * Jan Klabbers, European Journal of International Law * Not a small feat for a work of history, International Organization as Technocratic Utopia has its fingers on the pulse of our time...creative and thought-provoking * Jan Eijking, Journal of International Political Theory * Author InformationJens Steffek is Professor of Transnational Governance at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests include international organizations, international history and international political theory. He is the author of Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics: Justifying Global Governance in the American Century (Palgrave, 2006) and has published articles in numerous scholarly journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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