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The Political Importance of Global Technology Standards

February 15, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, technical standards were viewed as the invisible plumbing of the global economy. Drafted by quiet engineering committees, bodies like the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) operated on the assumption that standards were purely objective, apolitical, and commercial. Their job was simply to…

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How Technology Is Changing the Balance of Global Influence

February 10, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, the balance of global influence was calculated through a tangible calculus: the size of a nation’s standing army, the square mileage of its territory, its control over maritime trade routes, and the sheer output of its industrial smokestacks. Wealth and power flowed from physical geography and natural resources. Today, that traditional hierarchy has…

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How Digital Sovereignty Is Changing International Relations

February 4, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, international relations operated on a map defined by physical territory, maritime trade routes, sovereign borders, and military alliances. States interacted through traditional diplomacy, economic treaties, and kinetic power, assuming that physical presence equaled control. The rise of digital sovereignty has fundamentally rewritten this diplomatic playbook. As digital infrastructure—submarine cables, cloud data centers, semiconductor…