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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Book Talk with Anu Bradford
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Book Talk with Anu Bradford
Digital Empires examines the global race to regulate technology and the role of technology companies in the international economy.
Anu Bradford is a leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, who coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets.
About the Book
Digital Empires examines the global race to regulate technology and the role of technology companies in the international economy. Looking at the United States, China and the European Union, Professor Bradford takes stock of their different regulatory approaches and respective visions for the digital economy. She also analyses the geopolitical powers at play, including how government and technology companies respond when different regulatory frameworks interact.
Reviews
“Anu Bradford provides a holistic and balanced view of the three competing regulatory systems at the intersection of technology and society. Digital Empires is a must read for anyone seeking to understand what's at stake in developing a practical regulatory framework that serves the needs of people everywhere.”
“It is easy to forget that the future of the big tech is not just the question of what Europe, China or the U.S. will do, but how it all comes together. Anu Bradford offers the single best approach to understanding these interactions to make sense of an otherwise bewildering present and future.”
“Digital Empires describes the coming race between the US, China, and the EU to impose their regulatory models and set the norms that govern the global digital order. The outcome of this struggle will shape the geopolitical map in unimaginable ways. A thoroughly researched, extremely readable, and perfectly timed work.”
About the Author
Anu Bradford is a leading scholar on the EU’s regulatory power and a sought-after commentator on the European Union, global economy, and digital regulation, who coined the term the Brussels Effect to describe the European Union’s outsize influence on global markets. Her book “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World” was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs.
Featured speakers
Anu Bradford is joined by Nanna-Louise Linde and Javier Espinoza.
Anu Bradford
Author
Nanna-Louise Linde
Vice-President European Government Affairs, Microsoft
Javier Espinoza
EU correspondent at the Financial Times
