This book analyzes the global implications of the fourth industrial revolution, the Technological Revolution 4.0, on International Relations. Examining the intersection of new technologies and international power, this volume engages in extensive discussions and debates surrounding the immediate and long-term consequences of innovations, such as artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, smart cities, and drones.

The rapid and potent march of technological progress intensifies global curiosity and concern, particularly regarding control over these new technologies. The book discusses essential questions, such as the theoretical analysis of new technologies in international relations, their impact on the 21st-century world order, and the pivotal roles of international actors in this revolution. Finally, it examines how these new technologies are reshaping international security, cooperation, and communication.

A critical resource for researchers and the general public, this book provides a contemporary and theoretical framework to contextualize the international discipline in light of the challenge posed by new technologies, while also discussing the key variables that mold international society in the 21st century within the parameters of this technological revolution. Moreover, it anticipates the prominent dynamics and challenges that will shape global structures, regions, and nations in the forthcoming decades.

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David Hernández Martínez is a Professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Further, he is a member of the Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (TEIM) and the Complutense Research Group on the Maghreb and the Middle East. He has been a researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano, the Middle East Centre, the London School of Economics, UK, and the Department of Political Science and the Department of Arab Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, among others. His main research is on regional dynamics in the Persian Gulf, international relations in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Spanish foreign policy towards the Arab and Muslim world.

José Miguel Calvillo Cisneros is the Director of the Research Group: Security, Development and Communication in International Society and a Professor of International Relations and Global History at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has extensive professional experience in the international cooperation sector, having worked for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), for several NGOs and in the international consultancy sector. His research focuses on international cooperation and humanitarian action, international migration and security and development, with a special focus on the case of Afghanistan.