REMIT has published a new dashboard – a contribution of our researchers in University of Leuven! The newest dashboard is a product of a project deliverable, where our team performed a structural analysis of, on one hand, a technology and the related techno-industrial ecosystem, and on the other hand, international relations. The example technologies used are artificial intelligence and quantum technologies.
The ontology of a structural perspective contains concepts that relate to structure. In the case of AI, illustrated in this dashboard, these are concepts such as system architecture, redundancy, distribution at the technology side (indicated in blue in the dashboard). At the IR side these are concepts such as multilateralism, national security, international law (indicated in green in the dashboard).
The REMIT project analysed which policy beliefs are expressed by actors, to which concepts these policy beliefs relate, and how thereby tech and IR concepts get related to each other. This allows a structural correspondence analysis at the same time as an Advocacy Coalition Framework analysis.
Structural analysis relates strongly to power or control analysis and (social) constructivism in both the fields of IR and technology and is based on work such as from Nye & Keohane, Farrell & Newman, Bijker, Hughes, and Pinch.
More can be found in REMIT deliverables D5.2 and D5.3 and in chapters of the forthcoming book Navigating the Geopolitics of Strategic Technologies (editors: Roberta Haar, Paul Timmers, Raluca-Floarea Moldovan, to be published by Routledge Taylor & Francis by end 2026).