Description
The aim of this panel is to explore how science-policy interactions are currently conceptualised and analysed in IR through analysis of environmental and nuclear issue areas. Traditionally, the epistemic community has been a central concept informing how science and scientists contribution to collective action has been conceptualised. More recently, scholars have drawn on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to rethink the boundary between science and politics and to study the organisation of scientific advice for political action. Interest in the relationship between science and politics in the production of global objects of governance has also generated critical insights, particularly in understanding questions of authority and power.
