Editing Actor–network theory (section)

=== International relations ===
Actor–network theory has become increasingly prominent within the discipline of [[international relations]] and [[political science]].

Theoretically, scholars within IR have employed ANT in order to disrupt traditional world political binaries (civilised/barbarian, democratic/autocratic, etc.),<ref name="ejt.sagepub.com">Austin, Jonathan Luke., 2015. [http://ejt.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/11/26/1354066115616466.abstract "We have never been civilized: Torture and the Materiality of World Political Binaries."] ''European Journal of International Relations'', [[doi:10.1177/1354066115616466]]</ref> consider the implications of a posthuman understanding of IR,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cudworth |first1=Erika |last2=Hobden |first2=Stephen |title=Of Parts and Wholes: International Relations beyond the Human |journal=Millennium: Journal of International Studies |date=2013 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=430–450 |doi=10.1177/0305829813485875|s2cid=52209290 |url=http://roar.uel.ac.uk/2577/1/2013_Cudworth_Hobden_parts-and-wholes.pdf }}</ref> explore the infrastructures of world politics,<ref>Barry, A., 2013. "Material Politics."</ref> and consider the effects of technological agency.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leander |first1=Anna |title=Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program |journal=Leiden Journal of International Law |date=2013 |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=811–831 |doi=10.1017/S0922156513000423|s2cid=32051642 }}</ref>

Empirically, IR scholars have drawn on insights from ANT in order to study phenomena including political violences like the use of torture and drones,<ref name="ejt.sagepub.com"/> piracy and maritime governance,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bueger |first1=Christian |title=Practice, Pirates and Coast Guards: the grand narrative of Somali piracy |journal=Third World Quarterly |date=2013 |volume=34 |issue=10 |pages=1811–1827 |doi=10.1080/01436597.2013.851896|doi-access=free }}</ref> and garbage.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Acuto |first1=Michele |title=Everyday International Relations: Garbage, Grand Designs, and Mundane Matters |journal=International Political Sociology |date=2014 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=345–362 |doi=10.1111/ips.12067}}</ref>