Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1. Uluslararası İletişim Çalışmaları Kongresi, Ankara, Türkiye, 20 - 21 Kasım 2024, ss.1
The global digitalization process is playing an increasingly decisive role in shaping international
politics. This study examines the effects of technology and digitalization on the international system
within a techno-political framework and critically analyzes the security policies emerging in this
process. Critical approaches to technology reveal that technology is not only a tool but also central
to the dynamics of power and control. Marcuse, Latour, Ellul, Feenberg, and, Kellner were the
prominent scholars of this understanding.
This study explores how technology and politics are intertwined and how they impact the
international system. A literature review and comparative analysis of cases are used as
methodology. The techno-political analysis provides a significant framework for understanding
how post-politics based on the hegemonic economic system and techno-politics mutually support
each other. We argue that the techno-political realm which posits the overlapping of the spheres of
political, economic, and technological reproduces post-politics by two means that are
depoliticization and repoliticization. Post-politics expands the scope and influence of the techno-
political, accordingly. As a result, politics becomes the subject of technology day by day. Security is
also an extension of this phenomenon. Moreover, security is the most prominent political sphere
under the influence of technology.
The findings show that authentic politics fade away, while the technological sphere influences the
realm of the political. It is also observed in the security policies of the states. Today, the United
States and its allies are trying to create a techno-political alliance. While they continue efforts to
maintain their technological superiority and counter new security threats, China aims to establish a
new balance of power in the international system through technology.