DIIS Tech — Research initiative on technology and power
DIIS Tech examines the evolving role of technology in society and international politics.
The initiative is coordinated by Trine Villumsen Berling, Adam Moe Fejerskov and Johannes Lang, and is a 3-year (2021-2024) commitment to boost DIIS research on technology.
Technology has always shaped international politics. Think about the geopolitical implications of the compass, the steam engine, missile technology, satellites, nuclear weapons, or computers. Today, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, renewable energy, and other technological developments are reshaping the world. How are new and emerging technologies changing the character of war? How do new technologies aggravate or alleviate inequalities around the world? How will the green transition and the diminishing dependency on oil shift the wealth and power of nations? And how should democracies respond to the challenges of Big Tech?
DIIS Tech is an interdisciplinary research initiative that deepens our understanding of how old and new technologies are currently affecting politics and international relations across the globe. In the period from 2021-2024, DIIS will boost its research on technology in collaboration with partners in Denmark and abroad. The aim is to strengthen the public conversation about the dangers and possibilities of technology in our society today and in the years to come.
Trine Villumsen Berling
Trine has worked extensively on sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security and is currently the PI of a project focusing on technification of security authority in the Baltic Sea Region
Maria-Louise Clausen
Maria-Louise explores how the introduction of technology perpetuate global hierarchies and inequalities, as well as how the introduction of renewable energy impact state formation processes
Adam Moe Fejerskov
Adam studies the global terrain of technology and inequality
Sofie Henriksen
Sofie studies tech companies as humanitarian actors; humanitarian innovation and technology; Information and communications technologies in refugee governance and aid
Nauja Kleist
Nauja is curious about the role of technology in diaspora humanitarianism (in the Somali regions and amongst Somali diaspora groups) and infrastructure as an analytical perspective
Marie Kolling
Marie does ethnographic research on the commodification of data and debt as a new frontier of digital finance for capital accumulation in marginal sites
Johannes Lang
Johannes Lang explores the relations between war, society, and technology. He is particularly interested in how science and technology are changing the character and psychology of contemporary warfare
Helle Malmvig
Helle works on simulated war, war at a distance, digital authoritarianism, aesthetic technologies of war/protest, SoME in the the global south/Arab world
Rens Van Munster
Rens’ work studies how nuclear weapons technology has shaped novel imaginaries of planetary politics and the future
Jethro Norman
Jethro works on how proliferating information and communication technologies are shaping new patterns of mobility and sociality in Somalia/Somaliland
Luke Anthony Patey
Luke works on US-China tech competition, middle power states as tech leaders, 5G networks
Karen Lund Petersen
Karen works on issues related to information and communications technologies, cyber security and the concept of innovation in green transition
Robin May Schott
Robin works on technology in relation to the changing character of warfare; how data-driven technologies reinscribe social inequalities; and how technologies pose challenges to democracy
Peer Schouten
Peer works on the politics of infrastructure in the global south and the coproduction of political and technological orders
Sarah Seddig
Sarah explores reproductive HealthTech innovation in Kenya by tracing how commodification/privatisation processes and modes of control and power surface in a new data-driven and gender-specific context
Veronika Slakaityte
Veronika works on independence narratives through energy infrastructure in Lithuania
Izabella Surwillo
Izabela investigates what role scientific knowledge and technical data play in the decision-making process and public communication about new energy infrastructure projects in the Baltic Sea Region
Vibeke Schou Tjalve
Vibeke works on the links between technology, democracy, and security. Her current work explores nature and technology in the utopian visions of transhumanism and digital democracy emerging from Silicon Valley
Coordinators
Research and activites
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Photo/illustration by U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsBook Chapter2023divergent national paths towards a common green futureIzabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte
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Photo/illustration by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr.com copyright licenseJournal Article2023Towards a new paradigm of non-knowledge in digital humanitarianismAdam Moe Fejerskov, Maria-Louise Clausen & Sarah Seddig
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Book Chapter2022towards green energy communitiesIzabela Surwillo
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Book Chapter2021Lithuania’s road to energy independence through technificationTrine Villumsen Berling & Ingerid Bratz
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2021Exploring the role of national identity in sociotechnical imaginaries of energy securityTrine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo & Sandra Sørensen
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Photo/illustration by Hepburn Wind via Flickr.com copyright license
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Journal Article2021A Situated Perspective on Technology and Innovation in Global DevelopmentAdam Moe Fejerskov & Dane Fetterer
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Journal Article2021Adam Moe Fejerskov
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Book Chapter2021Rens van Munster
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Journal Article2021women's livelihoods, debt and the production of urban informality in BrazilMarie Kolling
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Journal Article2021Reappraising Jonathan SchellRens van Munster & Casper Sylvest
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Book2021The Pushback against Chinese Global AmbitionsLuke Patey
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Book Chapter2020Tracing Cashlessness and Urban Marginality in BrazilMarie Kolling
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Book2020Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global CashlessnessAtreyee Sen, Johan Lindquist & Marie Kolling
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2020the audio-visual performance of war by Shia Militias in Iraq and SyriaHelle Malmvig
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2020Entangled mobilities of people and things in transnational recyclingNauja Kleist
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Journal Article2019The sectarian taboo, music videos and the securitization of sectarian identity politics in Hezbollah’s legitimation of its military involvement in SyriaHelle Malmvig
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Journal Article2018Günther Anders and the Metabolism of Nuclear Techno-PoliticsRens van Munster & Casper Sylvest
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Journal Article2018realist radicalism in political theory and IRRens van Munster & Casper Sylvest
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2017Adam Moe Fejerskov
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Book Chapter2017The Ironies of US Leadership in an Ungovernable WorldVibeke Schou Tjalve
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Photo/illustration by Lone RavnkildeDIIS Policy Brief2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Andy Dean / adobe.stock.comDIIS Policy Brief2024Maria-Louise Clausen
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Brief2022Trine Villumsen Berling & Izabela Surwillo
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DIIS Policy Brief2022Panicked solutions to urgently wean the EU from its dependence on Russian gas may come at a cost that stretches beyond the financial burdenTrine Villumsen Berling & Veronika Slakaityte
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DIIS Policy Brief2022Maria-Louise Clausen, Ekatherina Zhukova & Vasna Ramasar
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Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor von SprekcelsenDIIS Policy Brief2022War in Ukraine will have high costs for the European energy sectorIzabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte
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Photo/illustration by Kancelaria Premiera copyright licenseDIIS Policy Brief2022Surveillance technology and physical barriers secure EU’s Eastern borderIzabela Surwillo & Veronika Slakaityte
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Green energy technologies hold geopolitical promiseTrine Villumsen Berling & Izabela Surwillo
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Diplomacy in the shadow of Silicon ValleyAdam Moe Fejerskov & Robin May Schott
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Trine Villumsen Berling, Peer Schouten & Izabela Surwillo
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DIIS Policy Brief2021Avoiding harm, delivering impactAdam Moe Fejerskov, Maria-Louise Clausen & Sarah Seddig
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DIIS Policy Brief2021What can be learned from the Danish Nord Stream and Baltic Pipe negotiations?Trine Villumsen Berling
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Brief2021Aid Transparency versus Violation of PrivacyMaria-Louise Clausen
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DIIS Comment2020Emerging Trends in Somaliland Diaspora Response to Covid-19Ahmed Musa, Jethro Norman, Mark Bradbury, Mohamed Aden Hassan & Nauja Kleist
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Policy Brief2020Maturing ‘techvelopment’Adam Moe Fejerskov & Dane Fetterer
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
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DIIS Policy Brief2018Four reasons whyJohannes Lang, Robin May Schott & Rens van Munster
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DIIS Policy Brief2018States disagree on definition of lethal autonomous weaponsJohannes Lang, Rens van Munster & Robin May Schott