The accelerating development of strategic technologies has profound implications for security, economic resilience, governance, and human rights. In response, this volume examines how the evolving global technological order is fundamentally reshaping geopolitical rivalry, cooperation, and global governance.

The book gathers leading and emerging experts to analyze the interplay between technological rivalry, regulatory frameworks, and multilateralism, asking whether the global technological order will be marked primarily by competition or cooperation. It maps how major powers, the United States, China, and the European Union, are positioning themselves across these domains. Drawing on rigorous theoretical frameworks, such as the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), Structural Power, and Securitization Theory, the book provides comprehensive analyses of critical geopolitical contests in areas like semiconductors, quantum computing, digital currencies (CBDCs), digital governance (5G, internet governance), digital infrastructure, biotechnology, and ethical AI. The book also offers crucial insights into competing governance models (including neoliberalism, digital sovereignty, and digital constitutionalism) and how technology can be governed to foster both resilience and cooperation.

This collection is designed for scholars, researchers, graduate students in international relations, political economy, and global governance, as well as analysts and policymakers.

Roberta N. Haar, Professor of Foreign Policy Analysis and Transatlantic Relations at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is the lead researcher of the EU Horizon project entitled REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology).

Paul Timmers, Professor KU Leuven, Belgium, CEO of iivii BV and partner at WeltWert®, focusing on geopolitics and technology. He authored research studies and advises on strategic autonomy, digital industrial policy, cybersecurity, telecoms, digital supply chains, and AI governance.

Raluca Moldovan, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and German Studies of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where she has been teaching since 2004 at graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include the geopolitics of the contemporary Middle East, migration studies, and mass media.