Resisting Autocratization in Digital Governance

Prof. Mauro Santaniello served as Convenor and Chair. The session featured the following papers:

• Dr. Danielle Flonk – Autocracies in Global Governance: How Regime Type Affects Norms and Procedures in International Institutions
• Ms. Grace X. Yang – China and Russia’s Alignment on Digital Sovereignty in the UN: The Case of the UN Cybercrime Convention
• Prof. Mauro Santaniello – Digital Sovereignty for What? Democracy, Security, and Global Competition
• Dr. Eric Zhang – The Extent of the State’s Visible Hand: China’s 5G Industrial Policy and Standardisation under ‘New Infrastructure’ – a Text-based Approach

Discussant: Prof. Mauro Calise

Digital Twins: Designing Politics and Public Administration

The team contributed two papers:

• Dr. Gerardo Ferrentino & Dr. Nicola Palladino – Pattern in Cybersecurity: Digital Twin, ETIAS and the Future of Algorithmic Border Control in Europe
• Prof. Francesco Amoretti & Dr. Serena Fraiese – Digital Twin Technologies in Morocco: Toward a Coherent Policy Framework or Regulatory Fragmentation

Digital Education for PS Community: Strategies to Innovate and Scale Teaching and Learning

• Dr. Serena Fraiese – Artificial Education as State Strategy: A Comparative Study of Morocco and Egypt

Security in the Age of Networks: Navigating Cyber Threats, AI Challenges, and Interstate Competition

• Dr. Michele Barbieri – The Cyberecurity Policy in the EU: Multi-Level Governance Tensions and Emerging Patterns of Political Monocratization