Technology and Agency in International Relations

2019-04-23 Political Science

Author : Marijn Hoijtink
Release : 2019-04-23
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Technology and Agency in International Relations written by Marijn Hoijtink. This book was released on 2019-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book responds to a gap in the literature in International Relations (IR) by integrating technology more systematically into analyses of global politics. Technology facilitates, accelerates, automates, and exercises capabilities that are greater than human abilities. And yet, within IR, the role of technology often remains under-studied. Building on insights from science and technology studies (STS), assemblage theory and new materialism, this volume asks how international politics are made possible, knowable, and durable by and through technology. The contributors provide empirically rich and pertinent accounts of a variety of technologies relevant to the discipline, including drones, algorithms, satellite imagery, border management databases, and blockchains. Problematizing various technologically mediated issues, such as secrecy, violence, and questions of how authority and evidence become constituted in international contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars in IR, in particular those who work in the subfields of (critical) security studies, International Political Economy, and Global Governance.

Technologies of International Relations

2018-11-04 Political Science

Author : Carolin Kaltofen
Release : 2018-11-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Technologies of International Relations by : Carolin Kaltofen

Download or read book Technologies of International Relations written by Carolin Kaltofen. This book was released on 2018-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of technology in the core voices for International Relations theory and how this has shaped the contemporary thinking of ‘IR’ across some of the discipline’s major texts. Through an interview format between different generations of IR scholars, the conversations of the book analyse the relationship between technology and concepts like power, security and global order. They explore to what extent ideas about the role and implications of technology help to understand the way IR has been framed and world politics are conceived of today. This innovative text will appeal to scholars in Politics and International Relations as well as STS, Human Geography and Anthropology.

Digital International Relations

2023-11-03 Political Science

Author : Corneliu Bjola
Release : 2023-11-03
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Digital International Relations written by Corneliu Bjola. This book was released on 2023-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The contributors trace how digital disruption changes the international world we live in, ranging from security to economics, from human rights advocacy to deep fakes, and from diplomacy to international law. The book makes two sets of contributions. First, it shows that the ongoing digital revolution profoundly changes every major dimension of international politics. Second, focusing on the interplay of technology, agency and order, it provides a framework for explaining these changes. The book also provides a map for adjusting the study of international politics to studying International Relations, making a case for upgrading, augmenting and rewiring the discipline. Theory follows practice in International Relations, but if the discipline wants to be able to meaningfully analyse the present and come up with plausible scenarios for the future, it must not lag too far behind major transformations of the world that it studies. This book facilitates that theoretical journey. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-politics, politics and technology, and International Relations.

Technology and International Relations

2021-04-30 Political Science

Author : Giampiero Giacomello
Release : 2021-04-30
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Technology and International Relations written by Giampiero Giacomello. This book was released on 2021-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how changes in advanced technology deeply affect international politics, this book theoretically engages with the overriding relevance of investments in technological research, and the ways in which they directly foster a country’s economic and military standing. Scholars and practitioners present important insights on the technical and social issues at the core of technology competition.

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