The Elgar companion to the geopolitics of digital sovereignty : contested networks, territories and self-determination / edited by Georg Glasze (professor of political & cultural geography, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Amaël Cattaruzza (professor for geography, French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, France), Finn Dammann (junior research group leader, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) and Frédérick Douzet (professor of geopolitics, French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, France).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glasze, Georg, editor.

Cattaruzza, Amaël, editor.

Dammann, Finn, editor.

Douzet, Frédérick, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Government policy.

Internet.

Sovereignty.

Geopolitics.

Information society--Political aspects.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This comprehensive Companion explores the rise of digital sovereignty as a guiding principle of digital policy in different regions of the world. It analyses digital transformation within larger geopolitical and geoeconomic processes and provides a historically and geographically context-sensitive overview of research in this field of growing importance. Expert authors combine approaches from digital geography, with its sensitivity to the socio-technical shaping of socio-spatial relations, and political geography, with its focus on questions of the spatial organisation of the (political) world with research from political sciences, law, computer sciences and economics. With comparative analysis through an international range of case studies, chapters shed light on the concept of digital sovereignty through a multi-stakeholder lens which includes states, private actors and civil society. Laying the foundations for a political geography of the digital age, this book is an essential reference for researchers and students in political and digital geography, geopolitics, internet studies and digital social science more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Political geographies of digital sovereignty: An Introduction to the book

Part I: Geopolitical dimensions of the digital transformation

2. Intermediation platforms and geopolitical asymmetries: Lessons from a pandemic

3. 'Almighty giants?' assessing the rise of gafam as geopolitical actors

4. Digital sovereignty in business: Encodings, demarcations and the attribution of meaning

5. Digital transformation and authoritarian power in the gulf monarchies

6. Socio-technical factors influencing the digital sovereignty of the individual

7. Digital sovereignties in a blockchain age

Part II: Conceptional perspectives on '(digital) sovereignty'

8. Contested spatialities of the digital: Conceptual contributions from geography

9. Situating digital sovereignty in the material geographies of internet infrastructures: Lessons from mediterranean interconnection hubs

10. Law enforcement and access to transborder evidence: The quest for the exercise of digital sovereignty

11. Digital civic sovereignty: A habermasian conceptualisation and a first glance at its core conditions in cyberspace

Part III: Discourses and practices of digital sovereignty in a global comparison

12. The evolution of the cuban strategy towards connection and the affirmation of sovereignty

13. China, cyber sovereignty and the geopolitical moment

14. Digital sovereignty under kinetic siege: The transformation of ukraine's information sovereignty

15. India's digital sovereignty narrative

16. Iran's strategy of digital sovereignty: The strategic control of internet routes

17. Russia's digital sovereignty strategy

18. Why the United States doesn't use the concept of digital sovereignty

Part IV: Discourses and practices of a digital sovereignty: EU perspectives

19. Digital sovereignty in France: From polarized debate to dispersed action

20. Digital sovereignty: Revisiting the French perspective

21. Building digital sovereignty in the French military: Doctrine, organisation and cyber combatants

22. Democratic sovereignty and new trends of online content regulation: The case of France

23. Digital sovereignty in Germany from the 1990s to the 2020s: Prehistory, reception, and contradictions

24. Digital sovereignty: A matter of scale? From a sovereign French cloud to European cloud solutions

25. The geopolitical role of digital standards in the quest for European digital sovereignty

26. An imposed sovereignty? Implementing European digital sovereignty in the western balkans

27. Towards a city-level practice of digital sovereignty? Addressing the question of digital rights and democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035300839