Artificial Intelligence and International Relations Theories

This book discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on international relations theories. As a phenomenon, AI is everywhere in the real world and growing. Through its transformative nature, it is simultaneously simplifying and complicating processes. Importantly, it also overlooks and "misunderstands". Globally, leaders, diplomats and policymakers have had to familiarise themselves and grapple with concepts such as algorithms, automation, machine learning, and neural networks. These and other features of modern AI are redefining our world, and with it, the long-held assumptions scholars of IR have relied on for their theoretical accounts of our universe.The book takes a historic, contemporary and long-term approach to explain and anticipate AI's impact on IR - and vice versa - through a systematic treatment of 9 theoretical paradigms and schools of thought including realism, liberalism, feminism, postcolonial theory and green theory. This book draws on original datasets, innovative empirical case studies and in-depth engagement with the core claims of the traditional and critical theoretical lenses to reignite debates on the nature and patterns of power, ethics, conflict, and systems among states and non-state actors

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theory in International Relations -- Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence and International Relations -- Chapter 4 Liberalism -- Chapter 5 Realism -- Chapter 6 Hegemonic Stability Theory -- Chapter 7 Dependency Theory -- Chapter 8 Constructivism -- Chapter 9 The English School -- Chapter 10 Rational International Relations.

This book discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on international relations theories. As a phenomenon, AI is everywhere in the real world and growing. Through its transformative nature, it is simultaneously simplifying and complicating processes. Importantly, it also overlooks and "misunderstands". Globally, leaders, diplomats and policymakers have had to familiarise themselves and grapple with concepts such as algorithms, automation, machine learning, and neural networks. These and other features of modern AI are redefining our world, and with it, the long-held assumptions scholars of IR have relied on for their theoretical accounts of our universe.The book takes a historic, contemporary and long-term approach to explain and anticipate AI's impact on IR - and vice versa - through a systematic treatment of 9 theoretical paradigms and schools of thought including realism, liberalism, feminism, postcolonial theory and green theory. This book draws on original datasets, innovative empirical case studies and in-depth engagement with the core claims of the traditional and critical theoretical lenses to reignite debates on the nature and patterns of power, ethics, conflict, and systems among states and non-state actors

Introduction: Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies -- Technology and society in historical context -- Technology flows and transfers -- Policy, politics and emerging technologies -- Infrastructure, industrialization and development -- Technology and war -- Technology and regional integration -- Diplomatic engagement and technology -- Conclusion: Towards an international relations technology research agenda.

Introduction: Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies -- Technology and society in historical context -- Technology flows and transfers -- Policy, politics and emerging technologies -- Infrastructure, industrialization and development -- Technology and war -- Technology and regional integration -- Diplomatic engagement and technology -- Conclusion: Towards an international relations technology research agenda.