Digital Technologies and the Prospects of the European Union’s Strategic Autonomy

• Authors: Tomasz Gajewski

Title variants

PL

Technologie cyfrowe a perspektywa autonomii strategicznej Unii Europejskiej

Abstracts

PL

Celem niniejszej analizy jest zbadanie wpływu technologii cyfrowych na budowę i ostateczny kształt autonomii strategicznej UE. Autor przyjął sieciowy instytucjonalizm jako podstawę teoretyczną wywodu i zastosował metodę krytycznej analizy dostępnego materiału. Pozytywnie zweryfikował postawioną hipotezę, zakładającą, że rozwój technologii cyfrowych modyfikuje autonomię strategiczną i rozszerza ją poza logikę swobody działań polityczno-wojskowych. W centrum tego konceptu znajduje się natomiast odporność kluczowych, zdefiniowanych przez technologie cyfrowe obszarów funkcjonowania UE. Autor dowodzi, że budowa tego rodzaju autonomii strategicznej (wraz ze ścisłym sojuszem technologicznym z USA) pozwoli UE wzmocnić pozycję globalną. Za podjęciem jej budowy przemawia także mniejsze upolitycznienie, co jest szczególnie istotne w warunkach kryzysu integracji europejskiej.

EN

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of digital technologies on the creation and final shape of the EU’s strategic autonomy. The author employed the network institutionalism as a theoretical basis and applied a critical analysis of the available material. The following hypothesis is positively verified: development of digital technologies is modifying strategic autonomy and extending it beyond the logic of freedom of political and military action. Digital resilience of core areas of EU’s functioning should be at the heart of this concept. The author argues that this model of strategic autonomy (enhanced by the close alliance with the United States) will enable the EU to strengthen its global position in technologically driven world. Less politicization is also a key reason for such a solution. It is particularly important in the context of the crisis of European integration.

Keywords

EN

European Union; strategic autonomy; digital technology; resilience; security

PL

Unia Europejska; autonomia; strategiczna; technologie cyfrowe; odporność; bezpieczeństwo

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 76
• Pages: 127-148

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Tomasz Gajewski

• Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/athena.2022.76.07

Biblioteka Nauki

2163363