Routledge The Struggle for the Long-Term in Science and Politics

Explore the evolving concept of the future in this scholarly work from Routledge. As part of the Routledge Approaches to History series, this book examines how the idea of the future became a central field of action within liberal democratic, state socialist, and post-colonial regimes following the Second World War. This text brings together diverse perspectives from cultural, environmental, political, and scientific history. It investigates the rise of new predictive scientific expertise and its connection to the political systems of the Cold War world order. Readers will learn how the future served as a lens for addressing the challenges of post-industrialization and global political shifts. Ideal for students, researchers, and historians, this volume provides a deep look at the intersection of science and politics. It offers a detailed analysis of how expertise and political structures worked together to shape the modern world.