Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty,Glenn Diesen

-About this book

Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilizes a neoclassical approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, national and localized technological ecosystems and cyber-warfare will affect great power politics in the next century. The reliance of modern economies on technological advances, Diesen argues, also compels states to intervene radically in economics and the lives of citizens, as automation radically alters the economies of tomorrow.
A groundbreaking attempt to contextualize the fourth industrial revolution, and analyse its effects on politics and international relations.

-Contents
Foreword by Dr Vladimir Yakunin, xi
Introduction: The geoeconomics of industrial revolutions 1
Learning from the past 2
The unpredictable world of tomorrow 4
Research design 7
Neoclassical realist geoeconomic theory 10
Case studies of great powers 12
The geoeconomics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 14
1 Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Towards national strategies 21
Introduction 21
Great powers and industrial revolutions 22
Defining the Fourth Industrial Revolution 25
Artificial intelligence 27
Robotics, automation and self-driving cars 30
3D printing and nanotechnology 31
The Internet of Things 33
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies 34
Neurotechnology and biotechnology: Improving human beings 36
Great power strategies in the making 38
2 The geoeconomics of technological sovereignty: Managing diffusion 43
Introduction 43
Geoeconomics and the balance of dependence 44
Technology and geoeconomic levers of power 47
Technology acquisition and implementation 50
Acquisition 51
Implementation 55
Extending the first-mover advantage 58
Conclusion 60
3 Techno-nationalism and reshoring: Fragmentation of the
international division of labour 61
Introduction 61
Power and the international division of labour 63
The first and second industrial revolutions 65
The Digital Revolution 69
The end of the Cold War for Allies 73
The end of the Cold War between adversaries 74
The dual decoupling of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 76
Contested technological leadership and the splinternet 78
Conclusion 81
4 The rise of the tech giants and the authoritarian state: Seizing the means of production 83
Introduction 83
The market power and political power of tech giants 84
Monopolies 85
Challenging the authority of the state 88
Towards national champions 89
The authoritarian state 92
Economies of scope 93
Platform monopolies and technological ecosystems 95
Case study of the transportation industry as a catalyst 96
United States: The leader 97
China: The challenger 100
Russia: The follower 102
Conclusion 104
5 Political communication: The state, the individual and foreign powers 107
Introduction 107
The printing press 109
The nation state asserts itself 111
Digital communication technology of the Third Industrial Revolution 113
Fragmentation of society 115
Political instability and revolution 119
Governments seizing control of the Internet 120
Towards a more authoritarian state 121

Towards a Westphalian Internet 123
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and communication 126
China leading the way 128
Conclusion 130
6 Geoeconomics without capitalism: Decoupling capital from labour 131
Introduction 131
A temporary or permanent disruption to capitalism? 133
Decoupling capital and labour 134
Creative destruction and permanent technological unemployment 137
Creative destruction in the Fourth Industrial Revolution 138
New jobs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution 140
Political instability and ideological alternatives 142
Redistribution 144
Universal basic income 148
Conclusion 149
7 The great societal transformation: Geoeconomics without Gemeinschaft? 151
Introduction 151
The societal aspect of creative destruction 153
Technology and the death of Gemeinschaft 155
Meaning after labour: Humanity as a bored and neurotic housewife 159
Reconciling the utility of technology with human nature 161
The societal dilemma of geoeconomics 165
Bridging Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft 168
Space cowboys as the new Übermensch 170
Conclusion 173
8 Killer robots and the return of the great power wars 175
Introduction 175
The offence/defence balance and arms control 176
Arms control: Between strategic advantage and strategic balance 178
Ending the nuclear peace? 179
The nuclear peace in the Fourth Industrial Revolution 181
The killer robot security dilemma 183
Proxy wars: Robots, drones and swarms 184

Cyber weapons: A new domain for war 186
Conclusion 188
9 Global governance: Power, legitimacy and ungovernable technologies 191
Introduction 191
The rise and decline of British geoeconomic hegemony 194
Legitimacy and the limits of global governance – the nation
as the largest tribe 196
Beyond the nation state and towards geoeconomic blocs 197
Towards a United States of Europe 199
The rise and decline of US geoeconomic hegemony 205
Post–Cold War: Global governance without China and Russia 207
China under the US liberal hegemony 209
Russia under the US liberal hegemony 211
Globalization as inter-regionalism 213
Conclusion 215
Conclusion: Towards technological sovereignty 219
Return of the state 221
A new international system 222
Covid-19 intensifying the shift towards technological sovereignty 224
Bibliography 225
Index 245

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Date de parution:25 mars 2021

Éditeur : I.B. Tauris

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages: 272 pages

ISBN-10 : 0755607007

ISBN-13 : 978-0755607006

Poids de l’article : 553 g

Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.57 x 23.39 cm