Technology And Agency In International Relations

Author : Marijn Hoijtink,Matthias Leese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429871757

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Technology and Agency in International Relations by Marijn Hoijtink,Matthias Leese Pdf

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.

Author : Carolin Kaltofen,Madeline Carr,Michele Acuto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319974187

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Technologies of International Relations by Carolin Kaltofen,Madeline Carr,Michele Acuto Pdf

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.

Author : Corneliu Bjola,Markus Kornprobst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000997705

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Digital International Relations by Corneliu Bjola,Markus Kornprobst Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Harbers
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789053567562

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Inside the Politics of Technology by Hans Harbers Pdf

Though the old saying claims that man is the measure of all things, the authors of Inside the Politics of Technology argue that the distinction implied between autonomous humans and neutral instruments of technology is an illusion. On the contrary, the technologies humans create simultaneously shape humans themselves. By means of case studies of technologies as diverse as video cameras, electric cars, pregnancy tests, and genetic screenings, this volume considers the implications of this "co-production" of technology and society for our philosophical and political ideas. Are only humans endowed with social, political, and moral agency, or does our technology share those qualities? And if so, how should we understand—or practice—a politics of technology?

Author : Giampiero Giacomello,Francesco N. Moro,Marco Valigi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788976077

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Technology and International Relations by Giampiero Giacomello,Francesco N. Moro,Marco Valigi Pdf

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.

Author : Katarzyna Mojska,Monika Szkarłat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443813792

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New Technologies as a Factor of International Relations by Katarzyna Mojska,Monika Szkarłat Pdf

This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the multidimensional influences of technological development on contemporary international relations. The contributions here are drawn from different disciplines, including political science, international relations, sociology, economy, law, biochemistry and bioethics, as well as from different locations, including Poland, the US, Brazil and Israel. This variety allows the complexity of the issues, challenges and implications of technological changes on the structure, functioning and substantive scope of international relations to be fully presented and explored. This collection represents essential reading for anyone with an interest in the dynamic interplay between modern technologies and the transformation of the contemporary international system, and especially for international relations scholars and students.

Author : J.P. Singh,Madeline Carr,Renée Marlin-Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317210757

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Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations by J.P. Singh,Madeline Carr,Renée Marlin-Bennett Pdf

This volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination of the issues of science, technology, and art in international relations. The overarching theme of the book links global politics with human interventions in the world: We cannot disconnect how humans act on the world through science, technology, and artistic endeavors from the engagements and practices that together constitute IR. There is science, technology, and even artistry in the conduct of war—and in the conduct of peace as well. Scholars and students of international relations are beginning to explore these connections, and the authors of the chapters in this volume from around the world are at the forefront.

Author : D. McCarthy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137306890

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Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory by D. McCarthy Pdf

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics. Focusing on the United States' internet foreign policy, McCarthy combines analyses of global material culture and international relation theory, to reconsider how technology is understood as a form of social power.

Author : Daniel R. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317353836

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Technology and World Politics by Daniel R. McCarthy Pdf

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.

Author : Otto Hieronymi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349080861

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Technology and International Relations by Otto Hieronymi Pdf

Author : Jacob Parakilas,Hannah Bryce,Kenneth Cukier,Heather Roff,Missy Cummings
Publisher : Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784132128

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Artificial Intelligence by Jacob Parakilas,Hannah Bryce,Kenneth Cukier,Heather Roff,Missy Cummings Pdf

"The rise of AI must be better managed in the near term in order to mitigate longer term risks and to ensure that AI does not reinforce existing inequalities"--Publisher.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309164733

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The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance Pdf

In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selected aspects of U.S. foreign assistance activities-primarily the programs of the USAID-that have benefited or could benefit from access to strong science, technology, and medical capabilities in the United States or elsewhere. After considering the many aspects of the role of science and technology (S&T) in foreign assistance, the study led to the publication of The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development. In the book special attention is devoted to partnerships that involve the USAID together with international, regional, U.S. governmental, and private sector organizations in fields such as heath care, agriculture and nutrition, education and job creation, and energy and the environment. This book explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of S&T to meet the USAID's goals while supporting larger U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Author : John Van Nuys Granger
Publisher : W.H. Freeman
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : International relations
ISBN : 0716710048

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Technology and International Relations by John Van Nuys Granger Pdf

Author : Geoffrey L. Herrera
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791468682

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Technology and International Transformation by Geoffrey L. Herrera Pdf

Examines the interrelation between technology and international politics since the nineteenth century.

Author : D. McCarthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137306906

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Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory by D. McCarthy Pdf

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics. Focusing on the United States' internet foreign policy, McCarthy combines analyses of global material culture and international relation theory, to reconsider how technology is understood as a form of social power.