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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. Technology and International Relations emphasizes the importance of leadership styles, domestic political agendas and the relative weight of technologically driven countries in global affairs. It highlights the now widely shared belief among both developed and developing countries that technology will be the defining factor in international politics. The book also unpacks the complexity of real-life cases of key technological advances, including artificial intelligence, UAVs, satellites and the responses of governments and the private sector to rising technological challenges.

"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"--

How (not) to talk about technology : international relations and the question of agency / Matthias Leese & Marijin Hoijtink -- Co-production : the study of productive processes at the level of materiality and discourse / Katja Lindskov Jacobsen & Linda Monsees -- Configuring warfare : automation, control, agency / Matthias Leese -- Security and technology : unraveling the politics in satellite imagery of North Korea / Philipp Olbrich -- Vision, visuality and agency in the US drone program / Alex Edney-Browne -- What does technology do? : Blockchains, co-production, and extensions of liberal market governance in Anglo-American finance / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn -- Who connects the dots? Agents and agency in predictive policing / Mareile Kaufman -- Designing digital borders : the Visa Information System (VIS) / Georgios Glouftsios -- Technology, agency, critique : an interview with Claudia Aradau / Claudia Aradau, Marijin Hoijtink, & Matthias Leese.

Science, technology, and art in international relations : origins and prospects / J.P. Singh -- A role for phenomenology in ir scholarship / Alena Drieschova -- How to discomfort a worldview? : social sciences, surveillance technologies, and defamiliarization / Rocco Bellanova and Ann Rudinow Saetnan -- World-viewing as world-making : feminist technoscience, international relations, and the aesthetics of the anthropocene / Cara Daggett -- Emerging science and technologies : diplomacy, security, and governance / Margaret E. Kosal -- Constructed "cyber" realities & international relations theory / Ben Wagner -- Constructing an inventive order of rights : the geopolitics of island-building in transnational waters / Venilla Rajaguru -- IR's constitutive absence and the promise of STAIR / Maximilian Mayer -- "The heart is a pump. Or is it?" : the politics of biomedicine, the objectivity of science, and the way we know the world / Christina Hellmich -- Thinking through the science, technology, and art of medicine : an agenda for international relations / Alison Howell -- Oceanic artscapes and international relations / Camellia Webb-Gannon -- From the globe to the germ, and back / Michele Acuto -- Science in the international political economy / David J Hornsby -- Creativity as a worldview : power in collaborative practices / Willow Williamson -- Reflexivity and political analysis : if everything is socially constructed, how can we construct theories? / Peter M. Haas -- Art and agency : alternative spaces for subaltern voices / Mónica Trujillo-López -- Cookbooks, politics, and culture / Ilan Zvi Baron -- Human/nonhuman assemblages in STAIR : understanding distributed agency in international relations / Kathleen P. J. Brennan -- Resistance to a worldview / Ritu Mathur.

Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today's world. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--background conditions and routine processes and decisions. Now, however, experts have begun to recognize its effect on high politics--national security, core institutions, and critical decision processes. In this book, Nazli Choucri investigates the implications of this new cyberpolitical reality for international relations theory, policy, and practice. The ubiquity, fluidity, and anonymity of cyberspace have already challenged such concepts as leverage and influence, national security and diplomacy, and borders and boundaries in the traditionally state-centric arena of international relations. Choucri grapples with fundamental questions of how we can take explicit account of cyberspace in the analysis of world politics and how we can integrate the traditional international system with its cyber venues. After establishing the theoretical and empirical terrain, Choucri examines modes of cyber conflict and cyber cooperation in international relations; the potential for the gradual convergence of cyberspace and sustainability, in both substantive and policy terms; and the emergent synergy of cyberspace and international efforts toward sustainable development. Choucri's discussion is theoretically driven and empirically grounded, drawing on recent data and analyzing the dynamics of cyberpolitics at individual, state, international, and global levels.