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The Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the universal belief that the future of globalization will be digital. Yet, the governance of the digital economy has become more contested than ever, splitting the world between different data realms (Leblond and Aaronson in Journal of International Economic Law 21 (2): 245–272, 2018), and dividing societies over the costs and benefits of an ever-expanding metaverse. This chapter seeks to analyze how America has sought to reconcile its ambitions to preserve its economic leadership and the new moral and societal imperatives brought by digital trade.
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Velut, JB. (2022). Technological Leader, Regulatory Laggard? Washington and the Shifting Governance of Digital Trade. In: Stricof, M., Vagnoux, I. (eds) U.S. Leadership in a World of Uncertainties. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10260-8_8
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