Scientists attached to diplomacy: French and German explorers calling for diplomatic accreditation before the First World War
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2022
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Léonard Laborie, « Scientists attached to diplomacy: French and German explorers calling for diplomatic accreditation before the First World War », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.5281/zenodo.6600906
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The figure of the scientist attached to a diplomatic mission appeared before the First World War, not after the Second as is commonly thought. Although such attachments were few in number and confined to a narrow circle, they shed light on a major historical feature of science diplomacy pertinent right up to the present day: the will and ability of scientists to mobilize diplomats. In a climate of competition, scientists indeed “politicized” the stakes underlying their research voyages abroad, in order to obtain the official recognition and immunity conferred by the status of diplomatic attaché. In the decades preceding the First World War, the rivalry between France and Germany proved to be fertile ground for both field research and the production of the first “scientific attachés”.
