Ways of war and peace are changing with new innovations in technology. Other aspects of world affairs are more durable, including an (apparent) return to enduring geopolitical cleavages. Geography is “sticky.” The talk will discuss and interrelate to research programs, one on “technology and war” and another on the “geopolitics of stability,” each of which have sought to map out change in continuity in the nature of international security. The core ties between technological change and geo-political continuity are: 1.) the purposes to which societies apply force, and 2.) the nature and logic of warfare itself. In this talk, I will try to argue that innovations such as the development of cyberspace are mostly affecting “niche” aspects of warfare; cyber is much more important for how it shapes what we know about one another than about what we can do to each other physically. Conversely, physical distance remains an extremely important constraint and modifier, not just for what nations can impose on one another, but in terms of what is known and what nations care about. Technological change has not much changed the political map of the world, though of course it is affecting the lives of individual humans every day.