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Course: 2025/2026

New Technologies and the International Order
(19625)
Bachelor in International Studies (Plan: 504 - Estudio: 305)


Coordinating teacher: DIAZ GANDASEGUI, VICENTE

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Objectives
Some of the transversal or generic competences acquired in this course include: - Instrumental competences: ability to analyze and synthesize information. - Personal and systemic competences: understanding the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork; self-critical reasoning; motivation for quality. - Other competences: ability to recognize the global and local dimensions of social phenomena; skills to contextualize and identify key actors in each situation. Regarding the specific competences, they are as follows: 1) Disciplinary knowledge ("knowing"): Mastery of methodologies applied to the field of new technologies and global governance. 2) Understanding of the attitudes of various political and social actors towards these new technologies. 3) Research into the transformations and evolution of societies, particularly in the area of new technologies. - Professional competences ("knowing how to do"): 1) Ability to design and carry out research (information gathering, analysis) in the field of new technologies and global order. 2) Capacity for critical analysis of the use and development of new technologies, and reflection on the challenges they pose at the international level. 3) Skills in managing and organizing individuals or social networks that make use of new technologies. 4) Ability to plan and evaluate, at different levels, programs and projects for the regulation of these new technologies. - Personal competences ("knowing how to be"): Beginning to adopt a critical and ethical attitude toward new technologies and their role in the international sphere.
Learning Outcomes
K3: To know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K7: To know and understand the main models of political, economic and social organization of States and the processes of change in contemporary societies and politics. S3: Plan and organize team work making the right decisions based on available information and gathering data in digital environments. S4: Use information interpreting relevant data avoiding plagiarism, and in accordance with the academic and professional conventions of the area of study, being able to assess the reliability and quality of such information. S6: Be able to apply the scientific method to the social, political and economic questions posed by the globalized society. S7: Be able to identify, access and manage sources of information relevant to comparative analysis in the field of politics, economics and international relations. S8: Knowing how to propose and use the appropriate tools to solve basic problems of economic, social and political content, especially in the international context. C4: Be able to engage in lifelong autonomous learning, enabling them to adapt to new situations.
Description of contents: programme
The contents of this course are approached from three different perspectives: A first approach to the historical, political, economic, social, and legal context, making an initial reflection on the change or effect that these technologies are presenting in the framework of governance, geopolitics, the new global order and the reaction of democracies to the new challenges they pose. A second approach will be based on the attitudes that the different political and social actors involved (governments, political parties, social movements, citizens, markets) have towards these new technologies, their risks and the rhetoric employed. A final approach will address the challenges and new methodologies that, thanks to the existence of these new technologies, have appeared in the evolution and new applications of computational sciences in the data science market and in the study of the Social Sciences.
Learning activities and methodology
THEORETICAL PRACTICAL CLASSES Knowledge and concepts students must acquire. Student receive reference texts to facilitate following the classes and carrying out follow up work. Students partake in exercises to resolve practical problems and participate in workshops and an evaluation tests, all geared towards acquiring the necessary capabilities.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60




Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Bonini & Treré. Algorithms of Resistance The Everyday Fight against Platform Power. MIT Press. 2024
  • Castells. The Rise of the Network Society. Wiley. 2010
  • Felt, Fouché, Miller, Smith-Doerr. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies,. MIT Press. 2016
  • Giacomello, Moro, Valigi. Technology and International Relations The New Frontier in Global Power. Edward Elgar Pub.. 2021
  • Hilpert. Routledge Handbook of Politics and Technology. Routledge. 2016

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.