This workshop and the special issue will explore how socio-technical instruments shape – or can shape – power relations, practices, and knowledges on UNSC and in its environment. We will build on existing studies on the material and socio-technological dimension of international politics to ask questions such as:

• How do technological instruments influence workflows, decisions, and decision-making procedures at the UNSC and related bodies?

• Do they reflect, reinforce, or change hierarchies at the UNSC?

• How do they change information and information flows? Do they also cultivate fields of ignorance?

• How do new actors, including non-state actors, gain access to the UNSC through these instruments?

While we place a focus on the UNSC, the very nature of the rewired positioning of the UNSC in international politics requires that we also pay attention to other actors in international security and security negotiations. The aim is to prepare a special issue on the topic in a high profile journal.

The workshop is set to take place virtually (hosted by the Graduate Institute Geneva) in the form of a panel series. The aim of the workshop is to produce a special issue that will focus on the socio-technical dimension of international diplomacy and international security negotiation in which the UNSC is playing a role (even a minor one).

This event is by invitation only.