The Global Machinery: Revisiting Technocracy, Depoliticization and International Organizations
Booklaunch with: Marieke Louis, PhD, Sciences Po Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Lucile Maertens, PhD, University of Lausanne and Prof. Jens Steffek, Technical University of Darmstadt and Normative Orders
Discussant: Prof. Frédéric Mérand, CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal on 30 November 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University
Steffek, Jens: International Organization as Technocratic Utopia. Oxford University Press 2021 and Marieke Louis, Lucile Maertens: Why International Organizations Hate Politics. Depoliticizing the World. Routledge 2021
Presented by: Research Centre “Normative Orders”, Goethe University Frankfurt
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