ISBN10: 0791468682, ISBN13: 9780791468685, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Softcover Examines the interrelation between technology and international politics since the nineteenth century.During an era in which the pace of technological change is unrelenting, understanding how international politics both shapes and is shaped by technology is crucial. Drawing on international relations theory, historical sociology, and the history of technology, Geoffrey L. Herrera offers an ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rich examination of the interrelation between technology and international politics. He explores the development of the railroad in the nineteenth century and the atomic bomb in the twentieth century to show that technologies do not stand apart from, but are intimately related to, even defined by, international politics.The strength of this book is that its historical case study is informed by crucial questions drawn from the field of international relations. Hence, the book is far more useful to students of international relations than if it were a mere historical monograph. [Herreras] contribution to international political economy and to security analysis is substantial. - Perspectives on PoliticsThere is obviously a lot to like here [It] deserves praise as a thoroughly interdisciplinary and theoretically minded effort to bring international relations into dialogue with the history of technology. - Technology and Culturethis ...

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