عنوان

Truth, science and chemical weapons :

شماره

TLets554865

عنوان اصلي

Truth, science and chemical weapons :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Smallwood, Katie

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

expert advice and the impact of technical change on the Chemical Weapons Convention

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Sussex

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2010

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Sussex

امتياز متن

2010

متن يادداشت

Scientific narratives are pervasive in international policy, in part, due to the increasing degree to which technological considerations enter modern thinking. These narratives are particularly visible in the chemical weapon prevention regime, which must accommodate changes in science and technology to ensure that they do not result in the application of new utilities for toxic chemicals as weapons. The dissertation investigates the function of technical experts, and the perceptions of their role, in the procedures of the chemical weapon prevention regime that address technical change. It explores expert involvement in three elements of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): its negotiation; the Scientific Advisory Board; and in national policy formulation. Ethnography - from an extended placement within the Convention's monitoring body, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - as well as interviews and documentary sources provide the methodological basis for the research. The dissertation finds that science is often made political within the international policy setting, and shows how science is employed to support political aims whether it is in accelerating or slowing policy formulation, or in deflecting the policy agenda. It argues that whilst the role of experts and their capacity to influence policy vary with the forums in which they are placed, their effectiveness depends also upon other factors, including institutional support. The dissertation also holds that national approaches to expert advice are reflected in state relationships with experts advising at the international level. The research supports much of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature on experts in national settings and has substantial implications for a concept popular in International Relations (IR) literature, namely, 'epistemic communities'. A case for reframing 'epistemic communities' is developed which incorporates notions drawn from STS, such as the important role of 'boundary organisations'. These are applied to the CWC, and policy recommendations for the OPCW and its member states are presented.

موضوع مستند نشده

TP Chemical technology

موضوع مستند نشده

U Military Science (General)

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smallwood, Katie

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Sussex

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y