ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the notion of technology, technologies and artefacts of technology, reflecting a variety of approaches to the question of technology and/in international relations (IR). Military and strategic technologies as well as information and communication technology have taken a central role in global politics. The technology of IR, and technologies or artefacts of technology again, referring to the hard technologies themselves applied in world politics is related but different. The logics of rule of IR during the Cold War, for example, had a mutually constitutive relationship with the hard technology, or artefact of nuclear weapons themselves. The technology of IR, in large measure due to the violent valorisation of the sovereign state, has inherited a lineage of colonial expansion and Western dominance, and made a particular world possible, which valorised territoriality and sovereignty. In contemporary global politics, there are myriad examples of technology and/in IR.
