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Technological Competition and Digital Sovereignty

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Technologies are at the heart of international economic and geopolitical competition, particularly between China and the United States, and in the quest for European sovereignty.

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Convince and Coerce: U.S. Interference in Technology Exchanges Between its Allies and China

Date de publication
22 February 2022
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The tough-on-China policy adopted by the Trump and Biden administrations has – and will increasingly have – important consequences for Washington’s allies, both on their infrastructure choices (5G, submarine cables...) and on their technological exchanges with China. 

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Europe and the Geopolitics of 5G: Walking a Technological Tightrope

Date de publication
31 January 2022
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The acute Sino-American tensions which started in 2018 have been coupled with controversies around 5G technology, exemplified by the spotlight placed on Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei and the security risks associated with its use. For Europe, the 5G challenge at the international level is drawing a very complex landscape. 

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Strengthening Sovereignty in the Era of Global Value Chains

Date de publication
14 December 2021
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How to reduce the vulnerabilities induced by these global value chains to be more independent, while taking into account the reality of these productive processes which precisely generate interdependencies?

Paul HERAULT
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Strategic Calculation: High-Performance Computing and Quantum Computing in Europe’s Quest for Technological Power

Date de publication
06 October 2021
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Computing power plays a key role in enabling machine learning, for scientific research, and in the military domain. Therefore, the race for computing power has become a key element of the US-China technological competition, and it is also a strategic priority for Europe.

Europe/United States: 50 Shades of Dependence

Date de publication
07 September 2021
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Is Joe Biden’s United States (US) returning to multilateral, traditional diplomacy? This more open stance does not eliminate either its domestic problems or the divergence in interests separating the US from the Europeans: how will open diplomacy fit in with the priority of defending US interests? Will Washington organize a broad anti-Chinese coalition that the Europeans are opposed to? Will sanctions with their resulting effects remain at the heart of US strategy? Will the Europeans be able to assert their sovereignty in the key area of new technologies against the US giants?

Is Europe a “Digital Colony” of the United States?

Date de publication
07 September 2021
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Edward Snowden’s revelations, the Cambridge Analytica affair and the digital transformation accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis have all shown Europe's technological dependence on foreign powers. 

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The Changing Landscape of European Cloud Computing: Gaia-X, the French National Strategy, and EU Plans

Date de publication
22 July 2021
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Non-European cloud service providers host the vast majority of European data, which is viewed as an economic as well as a political problem. Gaia-X, European governments and the European Union aim to bolster the European cloud market while responding to data privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

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Digitalization in the (post) COVID World: Views from Japan and Europe

26 March 2021
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The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of accelerating the digital transformation of both the industry and the society.

Technology and Economics: Techno-nationalism VS Techno-globalism in East Asia

30 November 2020
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The videoconference "Technology and Economics: Techno-nationalism VS Techno-globalism in East Asia," which was part of a webinar series on Technological revolution and Global Order in East Asia was held on November 25, 2020.
 
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GovTech, The New Frontier in Digital Sovereignty

Date de publication
09 November 2020
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The COVID-19 crisis has been a catalyst for a surge in the GovTech market, while triggering debate around the use of new technologies in the public health response to the pandemic. More broadly, the health crisis has shed a new light on the strategic importance of some domains relevant to GovTech such as HealthTech, smart cities and EdTech.

Clément TONON

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