Technology and Agency in International Relations

<p>This book responds to a gap in the literature in International Relations (IR) by integrating technology more systematically into analyses of global politics.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>