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"Technology and International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

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.

"Twenty-First Century Developments in the Field of Science, Technology, and International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

American policy towards the internet has been the subject of popular debate, from the Iranian Green Revolution to Edward Snowden's revelations about Internet surveillance. This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics, taking into account the significance of global material culture upon theories of international relations to reconsider how technology is understood as a form of social power. Examining American Internet policy as the product of the Open Door tradition in US foreign relations, McCarthy suggests that American policy officials actively promote the construction and maintenance of a network that maintains a 'free flow of information' in order to spread liberal democratic capitalism internationally. The book argues that technology is a form of institutional power that reflects the cultural values of its creators in the case of the Internet, it reflects the cultural values of American liberal capitalism. Considered in this way, our theoretical conceptualization of technology and power is altered, pushing our analyses to consider the sociotechnical production of global order as the product of an uneven and combined global political economy. A unique and topical contribution to internet governance studies, this book will be a valuable resource to scholars of International Relations Theory, Global Politics and Technology Studies.

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.

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.

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.