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The other geopolitics of AI

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
The rise and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) is having an exponential impact on the process of transformation and realignment of global geopolitics. While the United States, China and to a lesser extent the European Union (EU) are leading the “
Carme Colomina Saló, Marta Galceran-Vercher   +1 more
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Empowerment or Digital Colonialism?

This chapter examines Virtual Reality (VR) not as a value-neutral medium, but as a device that structures sound, vision, embodiment and agency in ways that reproduce specific cultural, spatial and epistemic logics. Focusing on a co-created immersive media project with the Indigenous Kogi community of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, it ...
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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Balancing Innovation and Equity: The Global South’s Role in Shaping AI Copyright Policy

BRICS Law Journal
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now playing a major part in changing creative and knowledge economies around the world. However, policies guiding this change are primarily still led by the Global North, which may result in policies being formulated ...
A. Aneja, A. Shrivastava
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Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
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Locked In: Digital Colonialism and the Platformed Prison

Surveillance & Society
This article examines the “prison platform” as a novel technology of digital confinement. The focus is how United States multinational Honeywell established a prison platform in Australia and New Zealand, neighboring settler colonies where the Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty, and prison systems continue to be stamped by deeply entrenched ...
Martin, Liam, Mann, Monique
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle, Martin Holland, Serena Kelly, Juan Luis Manfredi‐Sánchez, Nicholas Ross Smith   +4 more
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The “Digital Turn” of Value Chain Due Diligence Regulation: How Technology Reconfigures Stakeholder Engagement

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the “digital turn” in value chain due diligence, focusing on how emerging digital tools and technologies are reshaping the practice and politics of stakeholder engagement in transnational labor governance. As value chain legislation—most notably the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)—extends ...
Klaas Hendrik Eller, Antoine Duval
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Symbolism and Substance: How Geopolitics, Organisational Design, and Continental Coherence Shape Africa's Multilateral Reform Aspirations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What factors shape African agency in global multilateral reform processes? Rather than a supposed pawn of geopolitical competition, Africa's proactive diplomacy for multilateral reforms is garnering increasing interest. Yet we know surprisingly little about variation in the pursuit of African agency by the African Union (AU) and African Groups
Ueli Staeger
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Colonialism and Epistemic Dependence. A Postcolonial Critique of Power and Knowledge [PDF]

Eon
This research sheds light on the troubling relationship between power and knowledge in the context of digital transformations, via a postcolonial reading of how digitization is performing epistemic dependencies. It starts from the hypothesis that digital
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