geopolitik teknologi – Neopolitique

The Political Economy of Digital Infrastructure

October 1, 2026 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, the political economy of global trade was defined by physical commodities—oil pipelines, shipping lanes, container ports, and heavy manufacturing supply chains. Digital networks, by contrast, were romanticized as weightless, borderless, and entirely market-driven utilities governed by private engineering consortia and frictionless market forces. Today, that illusion has vanished. The global political economy has…

Politics & Power

How Governments Respond to Technological Change

April 14, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, the relationship between public authority and technological innovation was characterized by a comfortable lag. Governments operated on slow legislative timelines, treating technology as a commercial sector to be regulated after it matured. Roads, electricity, and telecommunications were integrated into society through deliberate, decades-long administrative processes. In the 21st-century networked society, that traditional buffer…

Technology & Politics

How Computing Power Is Becoming a Political Resource

March 18, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, political power was measured by territory, population size, industrial manufacturing capacity, and military stockpiles. While computing technology was recognized as an important driver of economic growth, computer processing capacity (FLOPS, specialized GPUs, and data center scale) was viewed purely as a commercial commodity—the domain of tech giants, software developers, and academic researchers operating…

Technology & Politics

The Political Importance of Digital Infrastructure

March 13, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, political and economic analyses treated the internet as an ethereal “cloud”—an invisible, borderless space floating entirely above traditional geopolitics. Infrastructure such as fiber-optic cables, data centers, server farms, and satellite constellations was viewed as the neutral domain of telecommunications engineers and commercial corporations, operating far away from the concerns of statecraft and sovereignty.…

Analysis

Why Technology and Politics Are Increasingly Interconnected

January 13, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For most of modern history, technology and politics operated in relatively distinct spheres. Technology was viewed as a neutral tool—an engineering output designed to solve practical problems, improve efficiency, or drive economic growth—while politics was the human domain of governance, policy, ideology, and diplomacy. In the 21st century, that neat separation has completely dissolved. Technology…