Conceptual analysis reveals shifting power dynamics in global digital governance, highlighting how technical control and corporate power challenge state authority.
Key Points
Define digital sovereignty and examine how geopolitical tensions, strategic dependencies, and corporate power reshape legitimate authority over digital domains.
Conceptual review of emerging policy debates concerning artificial intelligence regulation, semiconductor export controls, and platform politicization.
Theoretical analysis of technical standards, protocols, and multinational technology corporations as instruments of governing power.
Control over technical standards, digital infrastructure protocols, and semiconductor supply chains functions as a primary lever of geopolitical sovereignty.
Major technology corporations exercise forms of governance over civic life and user populations that rival or surpass the regulatory capacities of traditional nation-states.