Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in International Relations

Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in International Relations explores the geopolitics between technology and international relations. Through a focus on war, trade, investment flows, diplomacy, regional integration and development cooperation, this book takes a holistic perspective to examine the origins of technology, analysing its current manifestations in the contemporary world. The authors present the possible future roles of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies (including blockchain, 3D printing, 5G connectivity and the Internet of Things) in the context of global arena.This book is essential reading to all who seek to understand the reality of the inequitable distribution of these game-changing technologies that are shaping the world. Research questions as well as some policy options for the developing world are explored and the authors make the case for cooperation by the international community as we enter the fourth industrial revolution.Contents: Introduction: Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging TechnologiesTechnology and Society in Historical ContextTechnology Flows and TransfersPolicy, Politics and Emerging TechnologiesInfrastructure, Industrialisation and DevelopmentTechnology and WarTechnology and Regional IntegrationDiplomatic Engagement and TechnologyConclusion: Towards an International Relations Technology Research Agenda
Readership: Researchers and postgraduate students of International Relations, Political Science as well as Computer Science and Information Engineering. These are in the English-speaking and technologically advanced markets such as the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, Singapore, as well as the growing AI and technology markets and scholarships in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Ethiopia.4th Generation Warfare;5G Technology;Artificial Intelligence;Fourth Industrial Revolution;Research and Development0Key Features:The book characterises the early effects of new technologies in international relations and evaluates their theoretical and policy implicationsThe book is comprehensive in its evaluation of the origins and lifecycles of technologies and the advantages they generate for countries which have and do not have them, as well as the global effects of such technological inequalities