Technology

Opinion – Geoengineering Is Not Going to Deliver Itself

John Hickman • Feb 24 2024 • Articles

The United Nations COP summits are monuments to the impossibility of effective global governance based on international consensus.

Thinking Global Podcast – Natasha Saunders

E-International Relations • Nov 6 2023 • Features

Natasha Saunders speaks about distinguishing refugee status and asylum, the slow violence of asylum, digital border technologies, UK asylum policy, and refugee resistance.

Between Knowledge and Value: AI as a Technology of Dispossession    

Catriona Gray • Aug 29 2023 • Articles

When we consider the political stakes of the mass diffusion of data-driven technologies, it becomes clear that fundamental struggles over knowledge lie ahead.

Interview – Taylor Robertson McDonald

E-International Relations • Jun 4 2023 • Features

Taylor Robertson McDonald sets out the importance of narratives in IR, particularly how they contribute to shifting national identities and foreign policy formation.

Thinking Global Podcast – Nitasha Kaul

E-International Relations • May 22 2023 • Features

Nitasha Kaul talks about Indian democracy, technology, surveillance, and the status of human rights in Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir.

Review – The Age of AI

Arun Teja Polcumpally • Nov 12 2022 • Features

A clear and accessible account of the role that artificial intelligence plays in disrupting and shaping the future of human society, and its impact on national security and diplomacy.

Review – Lagos to Mombasa

Jorich Johann Loubser • Oct 28 2022 • Features

This podcast from the Center for Global Development is a much needed addition to the African policy field, but questions arise regarding its lack of focus on political economy.

Will Integrating Digital Technologies into the Food System Work?

Alistair Fraser • Oct 22 2022 • Articles

If integrating digital technology into the food system is bound up with a data grab, there is a need for critical scrutiny of what the consequences will be.

Interview – Tom Fletcher

E-International Relations • Nov 29 2021 • Features

Tom Fletcher discusses his diplomatic career, British foreign policy, state-building, and how political polarisation, technology and the pandemic challenge and alter diplomacy.

Interview – Jessica Dorsey

E-International Relations • Aug 12 2021 • Features

Legal scholar Jessica Dorsey talks about debates in technology, particularly drone warfare, accountability and transparency, as well as EU and US approaches.

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