Experts in a turbulent world / edited by Jan Eijking.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eijking, Jan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International agencies.

Specialists.

international organizations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organization, the work of international organizations fundamentally depends on expertise. Even more so in turbulent times such as ours, when climate change, pandemics, food insecurity, and war intersect in mutually compounding ways. But bringing in the experts bears risks too. It can reduce accountability and the perceived legitimacy of institutions; and specialist input often compartmentalizes issues that are actually intertwined. Yet the challenges we face are not isolated problems-they are historically intertwined instances of turbulence. Addressing them as individual crises or unprecedented shocks emphasizes technical problems and solutions over longer-term inequalities and trajectories, which are often precisely what fuels backlash. This raises a pressing question: how does the work of experts in a turbulent world affect international organizations?

Contents:

Proteus and the Argonauts: chaos, turbulence, and expert timing in global politics / Andrew R Hom

How to speak truth to power: Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley, and the role of science in international organizations / Geert Somsen

From history to attributes: how international organizations marginalize colonial legacies / Ole Jacob Sending

Standards beyond borders: how engineering standard setting became more expert and more global / Craig N Murphy

Latin American experts and the role of regionality in global governance / Markus Hochmüller

From boundary work to boundary navigation: expert consultants in multi-stakeholder governance / Juanita Uribe

‘Layman experts’ and ‘citizen scientists’: the diffusion of expertise in the digital age / Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni

Becoming a human rights expert in turbulent times: UN fact-finding missions in the 1960s / Alvina Hoffmann

Managing Europe’s shifting migration relationship to Latin America, 1950–1970 / Madeleine Lynch Dungy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Experts in a turbulent world.

ISBN:

9780198991694

019899169X

OCLC:

1594781085

Publisher Number:

CIPO000403842

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license