The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance. The aim of this paper is to outline a research agenda that can be used to raise a broader set of sociological and practice-oriented questions about the increasing datafication of international relations and politics. First, it proposes a way of conceptualizing big data that is broad enough to open fruitful investigations into the emerging use of big data in these contexts. This conceptualization includes the identification of three moments contained in any big data practice. Second, it suggests a research agenda built around a set of subthemes that each deserve dedicated scrutiny when studying the interplay between big data and international relations along these moments. Through a combination of these moments and subthemes, the paper suggests a roadmap for an international political sociology of data practices.

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大数据：数据实践国际政治社会学的问题：表1。

关于大数据可以在国际关系背景下彻底改变战略和治理的说法越来越难以忽视。国际政治社会学学者主要通过安全和监视主题来讨论这一发展。本文的目的是概述一个研究议程，该议程可以用来提出一系列有关国际关系和政治数据化的社会学和实践导向的问题。首先，它提出了一种概念化大数据的方法，该方法足够广泛，可以对这些背景下新兴的大数据使用进行富有成效的调查。这种概念化包括识别任何大数据实践中包含的三个时刻。第二，它提出了围绕一系列子主题的研究议程，当研究这些时刻大数据与国际关系之间的相互作用时，每个子主题都应进行专门的审查。通过这些时刻和子主题的结合，本文为数据实践的国际政治社会学提出了路线图。