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phil
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Welcome @henryfarrell! Henry is a professor of international affairs and author of several books, including the award winning Of Privacy and Power. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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miguelito
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@henryfarrell it appears that the networked world is fragmenting, not only with respect to China's 'great firewall,' but also with European countries (e.g., Germany) demanding greater control and local hosting over data While the US may enjoy an underground empire through the infrastructure layer—an expensive and time-intensive capability to attack—how, if at all, do you envision states reclaiming greater sovereignty, either at the hardware or software layers?
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Henry Farrell
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So I think that the fragmentation and the efforts to reclaim sovereignty go hand-in-hand. It is no longer possible to do what the US did for a while, and exercise network power without sharp objections. So clearly, China is looking to establish its own networks in finance and infotech etc. But the more that one state controls a particular infrastructure, the less others are going to want to use it. I would guess we will see sharp fragmentation of finance, some of compute (as US strikes deals with UAE/Saudi etc using access to high power chips) and continued trade in other, less vexed areas with irregular disruptions. But if Trump wins in a couple of weeks it will all be much less predictable.
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