Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45
his article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its ‘expert knowledge’. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines h...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/12225 2024-01-14T10:09:01+01:00 Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 Akami, Tomoko 65-81 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12225 https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0374.00027 unknown Wiley 1470-2266 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12225 doi:10.1111/1471-0374.00027 © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Global Networks 2.1(2002): 65-81 Journal article ftanucanberra https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0374.00027 2023-12-15T09:38:46Z his article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its ‘expert knowledge’. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state-centred and North Atlantic-centred dominant structure of international politics, and became ‘global’. In this article I argue that this particular network largely reinforced the dominant structure. This meant that it remained inter-national and colonial, and served the interests of the state/empire, neither becoming global nor advancing a universalist cause for the global civil society. The failure owes a lot to historical circumstances. Yet this case study also demonstrates that the structure in which the expert network produced specific knowledge is still dominant and that a constant scrutiny of the role of an expert network remains critical. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Pacific Global Networks 2 1 65 82 |
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his article stresses the need for a more rigorous scrutiny of the power structure in which an expert network produces its ‘expert knowledge’. It defines a pioneering multinational expert network in the Asia-Pacific region in the interwar years as a prototype of an epistemic community, and examines how far it challenged the state-centred and North Atlantic-centred dominant structure of international politics, and became ‘global’. In this article I argue that this particular network largely reinforced the dominant structure. This meant that it remained inter-national and colonial, and served the interests of the state/empire, neither becoming global nor advancing a universalist cause for the global civil society. The failure owes a lot to historical circumstances. Yet this case study also demonstrates that the structure in which the expert network produced specific knowledge is still dominant and that a constant scrutiny of the role of an expert network remains critical. |
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Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 |
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Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 |
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Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 |
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Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 |
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Between the state and global civil society: non-official experts and their network in the Asia-Pacific, 1925–45 |
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