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Theorizing Technology in International Relations: Prevailing Perspectives and New Horizons
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Political Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1526-0521
Försvarshögskolan; KTH.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4249-4518
2021 (English)In: Technology and International Relations: The New Horizon in Global Power / [ed] Giampiero Giacomello; Franscesco Niccolò Moro; Marco Valigi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, p. 1-21Chapter in book (Refereed)
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This chapter presents an introduction to and brief overview of the study of technology and international relations, including a discussion of research gaps and new horizons. In particular, this contribution addresses whether and how prevailing theoretical approaches have been able to analyze the relationship between technological and international political change. This includes how the personal, social, societal, and, to an extent, also biological worlds are becoming increasingly interconnected through new technologies – what has been referred to as the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ (Newlove-Eriksson and Eriksson, 2021; Schwab, 2017). How then is technology addressed within the field of international relations (IR)? Given the considerable attention IR literature pays to globalization and global structural change – core themes of contemporary IR – it might be expected that the role of technology in world politics would be a major focus. What would global politics and globalization be if the rapid development and diffusion of global information and communications technologies (ICTs) were not taken into account? It would seem, nonetheless, that technology has received rather mixed and selective attention within IR.

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Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. p. 1-21
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Technology, Globalization, International Relations, Realism, Constructivism, Liberalism, Techno-Politics
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Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43974DOI: 10.4337/9781788976077.00007ISBN: 9781788976060 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-43974DiVA, id: diva2:1526570
Available from: 2021-02-08 Created: 2021-02-08 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved

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