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Having just returned from a wonderful workshop on digital sovereignty, I’m still thinking about some of the discussions I had there. And one thought has stuck with me that I wanted to conserve here. It relates to the Tech War project which is basically a big attempt to answer a simple question: Why do states want digital sovereignty? It’s hard to define and offers little guidance for policy-making. Granted, it is a useful shibboleth to organize political coalitions but its popularity far outstrips its practical usefulness.
So here’s my thought, appropriately social-constructivist: If states think they are engaging in geopolitics, sovereignty seems like the natural thing to want.
There’s more to unpack in this sentence, e.g. what „geopolitics“ means and why it is so inimically tied to sovereignty but I leave that as an exercise for the reader, at least for now.
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