Résumé Il est très généralement admis que la science est, de par son principe même de
rendre raison des phénomènes, internationale voire même, dans sa visée, universelle. Mais …

Contemporary scholarship concerning science diplomacy is increasingly taking a historical
approach. In our introduction to this special issue, we argue that this approach promises …

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood
at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this …

This book is about two widely used but scarcely analyzed current phenomena: Big Science
and Research Infrastructures (RIs). Both concepts are enormously important in European …

A survey is offered of applications to fundamental physical research, in the years
immediately following World War II, of the instrumentalities developed for radar during that …

Research Infrastructures (RIs) are tools for scientific research that have received increased
attention in science policy in Europe in recent years, including the launch of specific …

The impending threat of global climate change and its regional manifestations is among the
most important and urgent problems facing humanity. Society needs accurate and reliable …

Intergovernmental science organizations (IGSOs) address many challenges of the 21st
century. Several countries of the Global South have joined established IGSOs or have …

This paper discusses the institutional persistence of systems of national laboratories (SNLs)
that unlike other public and private research organizations appear to have experienced only …

Anew form of scientific cooperation has been put in place in Europe in the second half of this
century. It is a form in which the governments of several countries—often as many as a …