Scientific cosmology and international orders
In: Cambridge studies in international relations 147
Introduction : science and the transformation of international politics -- Cosmology and change in international orders -- Natural philosophy in balance of power Europe, 1550-1815 -- Darwin, social knowledge, and development in the British Colonial Office and the League of Nations, 1850-1945 -- Neoclassical economics and the growth imperative in the World Bank and postwar international order, 1945-2000 -- Conclusion : the future of cosmological change