Technologies of International Relations: Continuity and Change

✍ Scribed by Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr, Michele Acuto

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 140
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Conversations on Technology and IR (Michele Acuto, Madeline Carr, Carolin Kaltofen)....Pages 1-11
Theory Is Technology; Technology Is Theory (Linda Monsees, Ole Wæver)....Pages 13-23
A Double-Edged Sword? (Blayne Haggart, Susan Sell)....Pages 25-33
Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics (Michele Acuto, Saskia Sassen)....Pages 35-43
Curiosity, Criticality and Materiality (Can E. Mutlu, Mark B. Salter)....Pages 45-53
The Meta-Power of Technology (Sarah Logan, J. P. Singh)....Pages 55-67
Culture, Diversity and Technology (Constance Duncombe, Christian Reus-Smit)....Pages 69-76
Experts, Matters and Actor-Networks (Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Tony Porter)....Pages 77-85
From Nuclear Weapons to Cyber Security: Breaking Boundaries (Madeline Carr, Joseph Nye)....Pages 87-96
Technologies of Violence (Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jonas Hagmann, Keith Krause)....Pages 97-106
Postinternationalism on Technology, Change and Continuity (Stefan Fritsch, Yale H. Ferguson)....Pages 107-114
Technology: From the Background to Opportunity (Leonie Tanczer, Barry Buzan)....Pages 115-122
‘New Technologies’: Questions of Agency, Responsibility, and Luck (Sarah Logan, Toni Erskine)....Pages 123-136

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; International Relations; Political Theory; Science and Technology Studies; Anthropology; Political Communication