Technologies of International Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Conversations on Technology and IR

   • Michele Acuto, Madeline Carr, Carolin Kaltofen

   Pages 1-11

3. Theory Is Technology; Technology Is Theory

   • Linda Monsees, Ole Wæver

   Pages 13-23

4. A Double-Edged Sword?

   • Blayne Haggart, Susan Sell

   Pages 25-33

5. Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics

   • Michele Acuto, Saskia Sassen

   Pages 35-43

6. Curiosity, Criticality and Materiality

   • Can E. Mutlu, Mark B. Salter

   Pages 45-53

7. The Meta-Power of Technology

   • Sarah Logan, J. P. Singh

   Pages 55-67

8. Culture, Diversity and Technology

   • Constance Duncombe, Christian Reus-Smit

   Pages 69-76

9. Experts, Matters and Actor-Networks

   • Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Tony Porter

   Pages 77-85

10. From Nuclear Weapons to Cyber Security: Breaking Boundaries

    • Madeline Carr, Joseph Nye

    Pages 87-96

11. Technologies of Violence

    • Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jonas Hagmann, Keith Krause

    Pages 97-106

12. Postinternationalism on Technology, Change and Continuity

    • Stefan Fritsch, Yale H. Ferguson

    Pages 107-114

13. Technology: From the Background to Opportunity

    • Leonie Tanczer, Barry Buzan

    Pages 115-122

14. ‘New Technologies’: Questions of Agency, Responsibility, and Luck

    • Sarah Logan, Toni Erskine

    Pages 123-136

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.

• technology in International Relations
• IR theory
• political theory
• interviews with scholars
• IR scholars
• political scholars
• anthropology and IR
• STS and IR
• conversations with IR scholars
• everyday tech
• diversity and technology
• politics and technology
• new tech
• post internationalism
• changing technologies
• new materialism
• human geography and political theory
• generations of IR scholars
• technology framing politics
• world politics

“Volume is ‘a promising field report, rich in evidence and detailed insights, curious quotes and inspirational thoughts’ … . the book has all these qualities and is a must-read for scholars who are interested in technology's effects on IR both in terms of practice and discipline. The book would also be interesting and helpful for PhDs and early career academicians as it … offers crucial insights form distinguished IR scholars.” (Huseyin Emrah Karaoguz, Rising Powers Quarterly, Vol. 3 (3), 2018)

• Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP), University College London, London, UK

  Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr

• University College London, London, UK

  Michele Acuto

Carolin Kaltofen is Research Associate in Science Diplomacy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at University College London, UK.

Madeline Carr is Associate Professor in International Relations and Cyber Security in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at University College London, UK.

Michele Acuto is Professor of Global Urban Politics in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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