Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Section I: Approaches
Legitimizing Science: Introductory Essay
Andreas Franzmann, Axel Jansen and Peter Münte 11
Transformations in the Interrelation between
Science and Nation-States: The Theoretical Perspective
of Functional Differentiation
Rudolf Stichweh 35
Section II: Science in Emerging Nation-States
State-Nation-University: The Nineteenth-Century
‘German University Model’ as a Strategy for National Legitimacy
in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Dieter Langewiesche 51
The Symbolic Formation of Science in its Historic Situation:
Rudolf Virchow on Science and the Nation
Peter Münte 81
Science in an Emerging Nation-State:
The Case of the Antebellum United States
Axel Jansen 115
The State-Technoscience Duo in India:
A Brief History of a Politico-Epistemological Contract
Shiju Sam Varughese 137
Section III: Legitimizing Fields of Investigation
Shifting Alliances, Epistemic Transformations: Horkheimer,
Pollock, and Adorno and the Democratization of West Germany
Fabian Link 159
Legitimizing Islamic Studies after 9/11
Andreas Franzmann 189
Stem Cell Debates in an Age of Fracture
Axel Jansen 221
The Internationalization of Science, Technology & Innovation (STI):
An Emerging Policy Field at the Intersection of Foreign Policy
and Science Policy?
Nina Witjes and Lisa Sigl 245
Section IV: Global Science
The Institutionalization of the European Research Area:
The Emergence of Transnational Research Governance
and its Consequences
Arne Pilniok 275
Universalized Third Parties: ‘Scientized’ Observers and
the Construction of Global Competition between Nation-States
Tobias Werron 307
List of Figures 327
Contributors 328

Andreas Franzmann, PD. Dr., und Axel Jansen, PD Dr., arbeiten am Lehrstuhl für Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Peter Münte, Dr. phil., arbeitet am Seminar für Rechtssoziologie an der Universität Bielefeld.