The course intends to provide the students with the analytical tools for understanding the transformation occurred within the international system because of the availability of digital technology. As any other technological breakthrough, also digital technology is bound to bring about epochal changes in any forms of human activities and social organization. The course will help the students to place such technology and the dramatic swiftness of its evolution in the framework of international relations in order to understand, inter alia, the role played at the international level by the companies which have been developing and still direct the prospects of future development of digital technology.