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International Studies and Emerging Technologies symposium: emerging technologies and global dis/re/order

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The International Studies and Emerging Technologies Working Group are hosting an online Symposium on "Emerging technologies and global dis/re/order", taking place on Friday 23 January 2026, from 9 am to 3 pm GMT.

This one-day event brings together emerging and leading scholars to explore how emerging technologies are reshaping international relations, presenting new security challenges, and requiring us to rethink global ‘order'. 

Programme: 

9.30 – 9.45 am: Benjamin Farrand (Newcastle University) Introduction to ISET Global Disorders

 

9.45 – 11.05 am: EU relations and digital disruption

  • Xinchuchu Gao (University of Lincoln) From Order to Disorder: China’s Role in Rewriting the Global Digital Landscape
  • Melanie Meadowcroft (London School of Economics) Emerging technologies, emerging conflicts: Assessing the Use of Technologies to Support Early Warning in the European Union
  • Konstantinos Manakos (Northumbria University) Promising Security, Delivering Dependency: The Material Constraints of EU Semiconductor Collective Securitisation

 

11.05 – 11.15 am: Break

 

11.15 am – 12.35 pm: Theorising world (dis)order and emerging technologies

  • Mike Bourne (Queen’s University Belfast) Technicity and Metastability in International Relations: Modes of stability and disruption
  • Elisabeth Schweiger (University of Stirling) The Pinnacle of Modernity: New weapon technologies and colonial imaginaries
  • Jing Su (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) & Caice Jin (University of Exeter) Cyberspace and the Transformation of International Order: Four Scenarios of Sino-European Norm Contestation

 

12.35 – 1.30 pm: Lunch break

 

1.30 – 2.50 pm: Power, technology, and (in)security in international relations

  • Abhishank Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Reconceptualizing Catalytic Nuclear War in South Asia: An Exploration of Emerging Sub-conventional Pathways to Escalation
  • Samah Rafiq (King’s College London) Digitising Risk: Expertise, Pre-emption, and the Technological Reordering of Security

  • Amnon Aran (City St George’s, University of London) The Global AI Race: Explaining Variations of Middle Power Responses

     

2.50 – 3 pm: Closing and next steps

Panel participants please register by Friday 16 January. For other attendees registration will close two hours before the event begins. 

 

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