Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: DIGITAL EMPIRES
Chapter 1: The American Market-Driven Regulatory Model
Chapter 2: The Chinese State-Driven Regulatory Model
Chapter 3: The European Rights-Driven Regulatory Model

PART II: IMPERIAL RIVALRIES
Chapter 4: Between Freedom and Control: Navigating Competing Regulatory Models
Chapter 5: The Battle for Technological Supremacy: The US-China Tech War
Chapter 6: When Rights, Markets, and Security Collide: The US-EU Regulatory Battles

PART III: THE EXPANSION OF EMPIRES
Chapter 7: The Waning Global Influence of American Techno-Libertarianism
Chapter 8: Exporting China's Digital Authoritarianism through Infrastructure
Chapter 9: Globalizing European Digital Rights through Regulatory Power

Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the Author

Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia's European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign
Affairs.

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.
*Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft*

Anu Bradford's Digital Empires is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the regulatory choices confronting governments that seek to reign in big tech. The US, China and Europe have chosen different paths, and Bradford carefully breaks down the legal and political contexts of each. Bradford's voice is clear and reasonable and this book is a tour de force.
*Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate 2001 in economics*

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.
*Tim Wu, Special Assistant to President Biden for Technology and Competition Policy, 2021-2023*

This is the definitive account of the fierce and hugely important fight within and among "digital empires" - the United States, China, and the European Union - over the shape of our digital lives. Among its important conclusions are that the European rights-driven regulatory model, rather than the American market-driven model, is best poised to unite the democratic west and challenge China's growing control in the digital realm.
*Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School*

Digital Empires is essential reading for all policymakers wanting to understand the drivers and implications of conflicts that threaten the global nature of the digital economy. Bradford offers a nuanced and highly compelling account of a digital world between decoupling and continuing globalization.
*Pascal Lamy, Director general of the WTO, 2005-2013*

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.
*Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group and author of The Power of Crisis*

Stimulating.
*Nature*

Comprehensive and insightful.
*The New Yorker*

Thoroughly researched.
*Financial Times*

Digital Empires The Global Battle to Regulate Technology is Anu Bradford's latest insightful, thought-provoking, and nuanced critical analysis of the leading digital world-wide powers.
*Lola Montero Santos, PhD researcher at the European University Institute*

This large book, written in the American format,...is captivating because of its height of vision and the abundance of illustrations.
*Recueil Dalloz *

The book shines as a genuine tour de force and a forward-looking research endeavour.
*Mahmoud Javadi, International Affairs*

The author engages readers by making use of enticing and easy-to-follow storytelling...Accessible to any kind of reader with some basic knowledge about policymaking and digital governance, the book prioritises clarity over concision,... Bradford's timely book will likely only become more relevant.
*Giuseppe Peressotti, LSE Review of Books*

The book Digital Empires by Anu Bradford addresses a central issue of contemporary societies, namely the regulation of digital technologies. The goal is to introduce readers to the major issues structuring this globalized sector, whose developments are transforming our daily activities, from search engines to websites and social networks...With Digital Empires, Anu Bradford provides essential keys to understanding current debates on digital regulation. The remarkably clear argumentative structure gives meaning to the mosaic of issues in this sector. Conceptually, the book is filled with particularly attractive notions: digital empires, vertical and horizontal battles, decoupling, de-globalization, splinternet, digital sovereignty, surveillance capitalism.
*Chloé Bérut, Politique Européenne*

Bradford's work will continue to be a crucial foundation for understanding the fast-moving digital world.
*Neha Mishra, Journal of Law and Political Economy*

It would be easy to write an entire essay about this important book. From this review, it will hopefully have transpired how competition law occupies its rightful place alongside the other regulatory topics highlighted here.
*Jacob Kornbeck, BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN*

Digital Empires offers a comprehensive picture of how the regulatory instincts of the European Commission that gave rise to the Brussels Effect are affecting innovation, global technology usage and standard-setting, particularly by firms based in China and the US. It proceeds by distinguishingregional approaches to regulating technology: the Americanmarket-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model and the European rights-driven model.
*Paul FraioliCopyright, Survival*