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Maximilian Mayer Mariana Carpes Ruth Knoblich Editors

The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 1 Concepts from International Relations and Other Disciplines

Global Power Shift

Comparative Analysis and Perspectives

Series Editor: Xuewu Gu Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn, Germany Managing Editor: Enrico Fels Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn, Germany International Advisory Board: Luis Fernandes, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University, USA Canrong Jin, Renmin University of Beijing, China Srikanth Kondapalli, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Dingli Shen, Fudan University, China Kazuhiko Togo, Kyoto Sanyo University, Japan Roberto Zoboli, Catholic University of Milan, Italy

Ample empirical evidence points to recent power shifts in multiple areas of international relations taking place between industrialized countries and emerging powers, and between states and non-state actors. Yet there is a dearth of theoretical interpretation and synthesis of these findings, and a growing need for coherent approaches to understand and measure the transformation. This edited series aims to bring together scholars from all major world regions as well as different disciplines in order to discuss and possibly blend their different approaches and provide new frameworks for the understanding of global affairs and the governance of global power shifts.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10201

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Maximilian Mayer • Mariana Carpes • Ruth Knoblich Editors

The Global Politics of Science and Technology Vol. 1 Concepts from International Relations and Other Disciplines

Editors Maximilian Mayer Center for Global Studies University of Bonn Bonn Germany

Mariana Carpes GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg Germany

Ruth Knoblich Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) Ruhr-University Bochum Bochum Germany and Institute of Political Science and Sociology University of Bonn Bonn Germany

ISSN 2198-7343 ISSN 2198-7351 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-55006-5 ISBN 978-3-642-55007-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55007-2 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014948207 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of thi