Tanczer, L;
Buzan, B;
(2019)
Technology: From the Background to Opportunity.
In: Kaltofen, C and Carr, M and Acuto, M, (eds.)
Technologies of International Relations Continuity and Change.
(pp. 115-122).
Palgrave Pivot: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
This conversation takes place between Leonie Tanczer of University College London and Barry Buzan, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Buzan is a central figure of the Copenhagen School and Regional Security Complex Theory. He works currently with the English School approach to International Relations (IR), which is based on the understanding that there is not just an international system, but also an international society. The chapter discusses Buzan’s experience with technology. It highlights how the material side of technology is quite conventional in IR and how we might best understand technologies as the instruments and the knowledge behind tools that enhance the capabilities of both humans and animals to do things. As Buzan points out, we can hardly conceptualize anything in IR without thinking about the background technological conditions. Furthermore, we should go beyond seeing technology as a ‘sector’, rather conceptualizing it as a variable that affects all domains of the international system.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Technology: From the Background to Opportunity |
| ISBN: | 3319974173 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319974170 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-97418-7_12 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97418-7_12 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | International society, English school, Change, Internet International history |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061307 |
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