Conclusion

The globalization of science has received much attention. Among the more optimistic viewpoints is the popular slogan ‘think locally, act globally’ celebrated by many policy strategists such as Caroline Wagner (2008). According to advocates of globalization, a transnational coalition is founded not on a ‘one world culture’, but on the basis of a dialogue among ‘diverse but practicing’ world members (Conley, 2002), or what Mohamed Hassan (2007), Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, described as ‘a multipolar world of science’. Meanwhile there is also skepticism that a global perspective may be ‘one-sided propaganda’. Political economist Daniel Cohen criticizes the internationalization process which ‘favour[s] the major players and do[es] not give new entrants a chance’ (Cohen, 2007, p. 5). In the global scientific community, many fear that the ‘globalization’ of science is no different from a ‘Westernization’ of science

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