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Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F48546054%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000027" target="_blank" >RIV/48546054:_____/22:N0000027 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09662839.2022.2101883" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09662839.2022.2101883</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2022.2101883" target="_blank" >10.1080/09662839.2022.2101883</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Digital sovereignty, geopolitical imaginaries, and the reproduction of European identity

  • Original language description

    “Digital sovereignty” has emerged as a hot topic in European politics. But although true European digital sovereignty seems unattainable, analysing the digital sovereignty discourse is still useful since it tells us much about European politics. We examine three “projects” which are part of the broader digital sovereignty initiative: 5G, Gaia-X, and the semiconductor industry. This empirical perspective allows for a better understanding of how imaginaries about digital sovereignty play out in these specific tech projects and how these then help to affirm a particular European identity. Methodologically, we focus on how particular geopolitical imaginaries appear in these digital sovereignty projects. Our empirical analysis reveals that Europe’s comparatively weak digital industries are considered a security issue. China and, to a lesser degree, the United States are not only seen as economic rivals but also security threats when it comes to issues such as espionage and data protection. Based on this, we argue that digital sovereignty projects, despite being full of contradictions and tensions, contribute to a distinct EU identity of an agile, future-oriented global player in the digitised economy. This, while not entirely new, is a powerful imaginary even if the proposed idea of “sovereignty” might never be enacted.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50601 - Political science

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    European Security

  • ISSN

    0966-2839

  • e-ISSN

    1746-1545

  • Volume of the periodical

    31

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    18

  • Pages from-to

    377-394

  • UT code for WoS article

    000852123500003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85137994967