This paper examines political norms and relationships associated with governance of pandemic risk. Through a pair of linked controversies over scientific access to H5N1 flu virus and genomic data, it examining the duties, obligations, and allocations of authority articulated around the imperative for globally free-flowing information and around the corollary imperative for a science that is set free to produce such information. It argues that scientific regimes are laying claim to a kind of sovereignty, particularly in moments where scientific experts call into question the legitimacy of claims grounded in national sovereignty, by positioning the norms of scientific practice, including a commitment to unfettered access to scientific information and to the authority of science to declare what needs to be known, as essential to global governance. Scientific authority occupies a constitutional position insofar as it figures centrally in the repertoire of imaginaries that shape how a global community is imagined: what binds that community together and what shared political commitments, norms, and subjection to delegated authority are seen as necessary for it to be rightly governed.

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一门不了解国家的科学：大流行准备、全球风险、主权科学

本文考察了与大流行风险治理相关的政治规范和关系。通过对 H5N1 流感病毒和基因组数据的科学访问的一对相互关联的争议，它审查了职责、义务和权力分配，这些职责、义务和权力分配围绕全球自由流动信息的必要性以及科学自由的必然必要性展开产生这样的信息。它争辩说，科学制度正在主张一种主权，特别是在科学专家质疑以国家主权为基础的主张的合法性的时刻，通过定位科学实践的规范，包括承诺不受限制地获取科学信息和科学权威来宣布需要知道的东西，这对全球治理至关重要。