ABSTRACT
There are good reasons for the renewed scholarly attention being given to the ongoing socio-political transformations of globalizing science over the last decade. Krige and Barth (2006b: 1) recently stressed that responses to major issues such as global warming, national and world security, health and well-being, and other social problems “largely depend on science and technology.”1 They further point out that academic studies of the globalization of science and technology remain scattered in various disciplinary clusters, which hardly engage in a mutual dialogue. Historians of science and technology, sociologists of science, and political scientists interested in science and security issues rarely discuss each other’s work. They too often do not perceive that they are all involved in the production of a new field of research (Jasanoff 2005; Krige and Barth, 2006a, 2006b).
