kabel bawah laut – 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…

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.…