The World Stage

The global governance of digital technologies is frequently framed around a contest between two competing camps.

One camp is the so-called like-minded states, led by the US, its European allies and democratic states like Australia and Japan.

The other camp, often dubbed the sovereigntists, are a coalition of authoritarian states of which Russia and China are the most prominent.

Within this bipolar framing, the rest of the world, collectively labelled the digital deciders, are pulled between the two competing positions. While their choices have consequences for the future trajectory of global digital governance, less attention is paid to their own objectives and policy goals.

In this episode of NUPI’s podcast series The World Stage, we welcome Arindrajit Basu. He is a PhD-student at the University of Leiden and previous research lead at the Centre for Internet and Society in India. Together with NUPI researchers Lars Gjesvik and Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, he discusses the limitations of not taking the position of countries like India seriously. He also talks about India’s approach to global digital governance, and how it fits within its broader foreign policy objectives.

The conversation is led by Lars Gjesvik.

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