The European Union has long been understood as a global regulatory and normative power, capable of shaping markets, standards, and rules beyond its borders. How does the European Union imagine and pursue a future of digital sovereignty? What becomes of the "Brussels Effect" in this context?
This conversation brings together Fabio Cristiano and Anu Bradford to examine the EU’s digital sovereignty agenda and its evolving relationship to the "Brussels Effect", and to consider what is at stake as Europe seeks to govern the digital domain while reducing its strategic dependencies in an increasingly fragmented international order.
Speakers:
Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organisation at Columbia Law School and the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020) and Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (2023).
Fabio Cristiano is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University and Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
