Algorithmic Sovereignty and the Reconfiguration of International Power: The U.S.-China Rivalry as a Structural Model
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https://doi.org/10.61353/ma.0240472الكلمات المفتاحية:
Algorithmic Sovereignty، Structural Realism، Digital Geopolitics، Weaponized Interdependence، U.S.-China Technological Rivalryالملخص
Algorithmic sovereignty is furthered through this study to demonstrate the structural change of power in the modern international system. It states that twenty-first century sovereignty is becoming more and more embedded within computational infrastructures, artificial intelligence systems, semiconductor supply chains, and transnational data architectures as opposed to territorial mastery or military power. Succeeding structural realism, the article analytically extends the concept of structural realism with the Algorithmic Structural Realism, which asserts that the dispensation of algorithmic capabilities has emerged as a key determinant of systemic hierarchy.
The study presents the U.S.-China technological rivalry as a systematic comparative case to study and analyze the competition in three interconnected business areas: advanced semiconductors, cloud computing and digital infrastructures, and telecommunications standards. It shows that these industries are strategic value chains whose management defines structural positions in the global digital order. Mechanisms of algorithmic deterrence are discussed as export controls, technological sanctions, and supply chain weaponization. The article creates three variable-based future scenarios of digital unipolarity, technological bipolarity, and distributed digital multipolarity that are founded upon the changes in semiconductor dominance, AI innovation dominance, standards regulation, and alliance formation trends.
It concludes that the polarity in the new order is shifting to a hybrid techno-structural form where the ability to interfere or even take over digital infrastructures becomes a fundamental mechanism of power balancing and systemic influence.
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