The continuing digitization of contemporary life also has an impact on international relations: It results in additional channels for communication and information transfer ("digital diplomacy"), but also in new problem areas such as cyber warfare and transnational misinformation campaigns, which would not be possible in this way without digital media. In this seminar we will focus on the manifold effects – positive and negative – that digital technologies have on the process and quality of international and transnational relations. Special attention will be paid to multilateral as well as unilateral attempts to regulate their cross-border use and to the effectiveness of such measures, including with respect to normatively problematic objectives such as the suppression of civil society and of pro-democracy movements.
- Lehrende/r: Andreas von Staden