Science in global politics

I have been interested in multiple roles through which science as a social field, scientists as actors, and scientific knowledge as a set of meaning-making practices shape and are shaped by global politics. Since my work is primarily centered around the theme of security, I explore how scientific progress and scientific expertise can be seen both as a cure to security dilemmas and as a security concern on its own. My work has scrutinized new regulatory regimes and practices that are developed to tame the dual use of scientific research and I have critically reflected on the social effects of such systems of governance.

Publications

Vorlíček, Dagmar (forthcoming) 'Science and International Relations: Knowing and making the international’, in de Guevara, B. B. Et al (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Knowledge and Expertise in International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rychnovská, Dagmar (2021) 'Anticipatory Governance in Biobanking: Security and Risk Management in Digital Health', Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(3), 1-18.
Evans, Sam W., Matthias Leese and Dagmar Rychnovská (2021), ‘Science, technology, security: Towards critical collaboration’, Social Studies of Science, 51 (2): 189-213.
Rychnovská, Dagmar (2020), ‘Security meets science governance: the EU politics of dual-use research’, in C. Lavallée, R. Csernatoni, A. Calcara (eds), Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance. London: Routledge: 164-176.
Rychnovská, Dagmar, Maya Pasgaard and Trine Villumsen Berling (2017), ‘Science and security expertise: authority, subjectivity, knowledge’, Geoforum, 84: 327-331.
Rychnovská, Dagmar (2017), ‘Bio(in)security, scientific expertise, and the politics of post-disarmament in the biological weapons regime’, Geoforum, 84: 378-388.
Rychnovská, Dagmar (2016) ‘Governing dual-use knowledge: from the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security’, Security Dialogue, 47 (4): 310-328.