Digital Sovereignty, Economic Ideas, and the Struggle over the Digital Markets
A light lunch will be served
Digital market regulations respond to technological changes and global dynamics, but also to how political actors shape markets. Focusing on the Digital Markets Act, this article explains the EU’s marketcraft as the result of a struggle in the EU’s policy field between political actors promoting competing economic ideas in a rapidly evolving technological and geopolitical context. We argue that significant discursive and policy change in digital market governance has occurred because of shifting coalitions between three constellations of actors, which we call market correctors, market-busters, and market-directors. Tracking the ongoing campaign to challenge Big Tech and define the meaning of digital sovereignty, we show that market-directors have ushered in potentially comprehensive policy change.
Date: 18 January 2024, 12:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Speaker: Frederic Merand (Universite de Montreal)
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Part of: IR Research Colloquium
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Holly Omand, Daniel Burton