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Policy brief. Digital sovereignty is now at the top of the list for many liberal democratic states, a spot once occupied by policies of openness and global connectivity. This shift comes from a desire to decouple from the United States, but it comes with challenges from the overly broad definition of digital sovereignty, which includes economic development, national security, and normative goals. Read more

Peer-reviewed article. Digital rights governance is a multidisciplinary field requiring interdisciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. Yet, relatively little has been written about when to combine research methods and why. In this article, we present a scoping review of five recent volumes of Internet Policy Review (vols. 10–14), analysing 141 articles to assess the prevalence of interdisciplinary scholarship and its relationship to single-, multi-, and mixed methods research. Read more.

Commentary. Outer space has become increasingly privatized, with more than half of the satellites launched for commercial purposes. The problem, however, is not private-sector involvement itself, but the growing concentration of economic power in the hands of private firms that are incentivized to serve the surveillance state and further a new kind of space military-industrial complex— one that increasingly threatens civil liberties and undermines democratic accountability. Read more.