Big Tech’s Role in the Ukraine War: New article by Center for Military Studies’ Tobias Liebetrau
The support of American technology companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Starlink has been crucial for Ukraine’s ability to fight Russia. Had large tech companies not migrated the Ukrainian public cloud, prevented cyberattacks, enabled communication, and analyzed intelligence and military data, Ukraine might have lost the war.
In his new article, Infrastructuring Public-Private Relations: Big Tech, "The Ukraine War and Implications for Security Governance” CMS Associate Professor Tobias Liebetrau analyses the support of big tech for Ukraine and discusses the implications for public-private relations, infrastructural analysis, digital sovereignty, and alliance politics. Co-authored with Jeppe T. Jacobsen, the article moves beyond traditional debates about state decline or corporate dominance. Instead, the article shows how sovereignty, geopolitical decision-making and national security knowledge are contingent upon infrastructurally mediated Big Tech company and state relations.
The article was published by Sage Journals.
And has a public edition through the link.