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Digital Sovereignty

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  • Pohle, Julia
  • Thiel, Thorsten

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Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has become a central element in policy discourses on digital issues. Although it has become popular in both centralised/authoritarian and democratic countries alike, the concept remains highly contested. After investigating the challenges to sovereignty apparently posed by the digital transformation, this essay retraces how sovereignty has re-emerged as a key category with regard to the digital. By systematising the various normative claims to digital sovereignty, it then goes on to show how, today, the concept is understood more as a discursive practice in politics and policy than as a legal or organisational concept.

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  • Pohle, Julia & Thiel, Thorsten, 2021. "Digital Sovereignty," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 47-67.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:247156
    DOI: 10.14361/9783839457603-003
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