Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introducing Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order
Markus Kornprobst & Corneliu Bjola
Part I: Revisiting Core Concepts
1. The Distribution of Power, Security, and Interconnectedness: The Structure of Digital International Relations
Richard Harknett
2. The State in the Digital Era: Supreme or in Decline?
Lucas Kello
3. Rise of the Nerd: Knowledge, Power and International Relations in a Digital World
Giampiero Giacomello & Johan Eriksson
Part II: Agential Processes
4. Can you Trust in Zoom? Bonds and Trust in Digital Spaces
Marcus Holmes & Nicholas J. Wheeler
5. Metrodiplomacy: The Rise of Digital Urban Networks
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
6. Sticking to the State? Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Digital Era
Nina Hall
Part III: Ordering Processes
7. Algorithmic Security and Conflict in a Datafied World
Claudia Aradau
8. The International Political Economy of the Digital (Revolution)
Miguel Otero-Iglesias
9. The Social Media Revolution, the Potential for Radical Democratization and Shifts in the Climate Change Discourse
Alena Drieschova
10. Digital Diplomacy, Governance and International Law
Victoria Baines
Conclusion
Corneliu Bjola & Markus Kornprobst
