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The Rockefeller Foundation and the Post-WW2 Transnational Ecology of Science Policy: from Solitary Splendor in the Inter-war Era to a ‘Me Too’ Agenda in the 1950s
Centaurus ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2010-10-21 , DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00196.x Pnina G Abir-Am 1
Centaurus ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2010-10-21 , DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00196.x Pnina G Abir-Am 1
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Since the end of the Cold War in 1989 transnational science policy1 has ceased to be largely about the transatlantic world, as transpacific world connections become ever more important (Wang, 2009, 2010). With this in mind, I have written this paper in order to reflect upon the experience of the Rockefeller Foundation, a key player in transnational science policy making during the inter-war era,2 which failed to adapt to the new ecology of transnational science policy that developed after the Second World War, eventually opting out of it altogether. The hope is that by considering this story, fresh light may be thrown on some of the issues confronting today’s science policy makers in the face of globalization. The Rockefeller Foundation3 enjoyed a position of solitary splendor in the inter-war era as a major transnational operator, which sponsored scientific research in over 20 European countries, in addition to supporting selected institutions in the USA and China (Schneider, 2002). At that time the Foundation filled a vacuum created by an isolationist US foreign policy and the financial bankruptcy of many European governments due to inflation and the reverberations of the post-WW1 settlement (Maier, 1975, 1987; Manela, 2007). The Foundation’s impact stemmed not only from its careful selection of promising individuals and institutions, but also from its decision to invest in targeted research areas,
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