{"product_id":"the-technocratic-international-jan-eijking-9780198990901","title":"The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere","description":"Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as technical institutions separate from political concerns. And yet they are frequently accused, whether by the public or by governments, of hiding behind this technocratic veil only to privilege a few rich and powerful nations. Experts appear as guardians of stability and protectors of an unequal status quo. Scholars of International Relations (IR) and international law have illuminated the production and contestation of expertise. But its historical emergence and distinctiveness remain under-explored. \u003cem\u003eThe Technocratic International\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to historically examine and comprehensively theorise the role of experts in the institutionalisation of modern international order. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow exactly did technical expertise come to be a central tenet to the work of international organisations? Based on archival material from Paris, London, and Geneva, \u003cem\u003eThe Technocratic International\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the neglected history of expert mobilisation at early moments of institutionalised international cooperation in the nineteenth century. To understand how expertise works at the international level, examining how expert status and knowledge are produced is not enough. Instead, we must bring into view how expertise relates to claims about the very domain in which it operates. Historically, experts were not merely-as institutionalist and functionalist accounts assume - mobilised to epistemically optimise international policymaking. Instead, technocratic elites constructed \"the international\" through Eurocentric performances of expert approval.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Eijking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198990901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198990901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jan Eijking","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48743073218815,"sku":"9780198990901","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-technocratic-international-jan-eijking-9780198990901","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}