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(4) Infrastructures are at the heart of social processes, which generate knowledge practices, constituting the international. They inscribe themselves in discourses, produce meaning, and shape identities, and they are thus part of the ideational underpinning of the international.

(3) Infrastructures continuously transform the realm of the international through re-scaling and re-ordering spaces, polities, and people

(2) The article adopts sociological definition of “the international” and emphasizes the centrality of materials and mobilities in thinking about the international.

(1) The article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. The IR discipline overlooked the role of these physical artefacts in shaping international relationships. The article calls for a novel infrastructural lens in the IR discipline