Technology and World Politics

2017-08-03 Political Science

Author : Daniel R. McCarthy
Release : 2017-08-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Technology and World Politics by : Daniel R. McCarthy

Download or read book Technology and World Politics written by Daniel R. McCarthy. This book was released on 2017-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner. Technology and World Politics introduces its readers to different approaches to technology in global politics through a survey of emerging fusions of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations. The theoretical approaches to the subject include the Social Construction of Technology, Actor-Network Theory, the Critical Theory of Technology, and New Materialist and Posthumanist approaches. Considering how such theoretical approaches can be used to analyse concrete political issues such as the politics of nuclear weapons, Internet governance, shipping containers, the revolution in military affairs, space technologies, and the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, the volume stresses the socially constructed and inherently political nature of technological objects. Providing the theoretical background to approach the politics of technology in a sophisticated manner alongside a glossary and guide to further reading for newcomers, this volume is a vital resource for both students and scholars focusing on politics and international relations.

Information Technologies and Global Politics

2012-02-01 Technology & Engineering

Author : James N. Rosenau
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Download or read book Information Technologies and Global Politics written by James N. Rosenau. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to the fundamentals of political science, namely power and governance, this book studies the relationship between information technologies and global politics. Key issue-areas are carefully examined: security (including information warfare and terrorism); global consumption and production; international telecommunications; culture and identity formation; human rights; humanitarian assistance; the environment; and biotechnology. Each demonstrates the validity of the view now prevalent within international relations research—the shifting of power and the locus of authority away from the state. Three major conclusions are offered. First, the nation-state must now confront, support, or coexist with other international actors: non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations; multinational corporations; transnational social movements; and individuals. Second, our understanding of instrumental and structural powers must be reconfigured to account for digital information technologies. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, information technologies are now reconstituting actor identities and issues.

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.

Technologies of International Relations

2018-11-04 Political Science

Author : Carolin Kaltofen
Release : 2018-11-04
Genre : Political Science
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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.

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