Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
- 21h 58m 22s
- Anu Bradford
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2023
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers-the United States, China, and the European Union-is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative follow-up to The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford explores a rivalry that will shape the world in the decades to come.
Across the globe, people dependent on digital technologies have become increasingly alarmed that their rapid adoption and transformation have ushered in an exceedingly concentrated economy where a few powerful companies control vast economic wealth and political power, undermine data privacy, and widen the gap between economic winners and losers. Bradford examines three competing regulatory approaches-the American market-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model-and discusses how governments and tech companies navigate the inevitable conflicts that arise when these regulatory approaches collide.
Digital Empires lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and illuminates the immense stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies.
About the Author
Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia's European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs.
In this Audiobook
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - The American Market-Driven Regulatory Model
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Chapter 2 - The Chinese State-Driven Regulatory Model
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Chapter 3 - The European Rights-Driven Regulatory Model
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Chapter 4 - Between Freedom and Control: Navigating Competing Regulatory Models
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Chapter 5 - The Battle for Technological Supremacy: The US–China Tech War
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Chapter 6 - When Rights, Markets, and Security Collide: The US–EU Regulatory Battles
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Chapter 7 - The Waning Global Influence of American Techno-Libertarianism
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Chapter 8 - Exporting China’s Digital Authoritarianism through Infrastructure
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Chapter 9 - Globalizing European Digital Rights through Regulatory Power
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Conclusion
