The Sovereignty Wars by Stewart M. Patrick

Author:Stewart M. Patrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE FUTURE OF VIOLENCE

In the decades to come, preserving national and global security will likely require the United States to cut even more sovereignty bargains. The primary driving forces will be the furious pace of technological change and the increasingly distributed nature of global threats.

Advances in technology have long driven global rule making. As new breakthroughs occur, governments naturally seek common standards to mitigate the risks of novel forms of interdependence.64 But two things complicate the picture today. First, rapid technological change is leaving national governments and international organizations scrambling to regulate innovations with profound implications for global security, in areas from cyberspace to drones, robotics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. In each case, protecting American and international security will require the United States to cede some freedom of action for the promise of greater safety through international cooperation. Sovereignty-as-influence must trump sovereignty-as-autonomy. Second, contemporary global threats are distributed, emerging not just from the world’s 200-odd sovereign states but increasingly from legions of nonstate actors able to acquire and exploit disruptive and potentially lethal technologies with or without the knowledge of government authorities. This trend raises profound challenges for the United States, among them how to hold private actors (as well as states) accountable for the cross-border consequences of actions they commit within foreign territorial jurisdictions.65

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