http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/igcc_rpts/rss Recent eScholarship items from Reports Sat, 1 Aug 2026 04:28:47 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76q4n61d <p>Digital technology is seeping into every corner of society. As the pace of technological change accelerates over the next decade, digitalization is poised to impose profound changes on the international political economy. A new digital regime is evolving to govern these effects, although it is uncertain how this regime will develop amid tectonic shifts in governing establishments, world geopolitics, and the scope of economic globalization. A broad array of interests are contesting how digital governance will play out across the globe, from digital businesses big and small to politicians balancing security and economic growth objectives. Uncertainty predominates, but looking at previous historical instances where new technology demanded cross-border governance can reveal clues as to how a digital regime can take shape in a more sovereignty-oriented world.</p><p>This report explores the digital order that underlies transnational tensions over regulating digital technologies,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76q4n61d Tue, 1 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cowhey, Peter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz529q6 Authoritarian influence in multilateral institutions—particularly the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)—is growing rapidly and poses a serious threat to democratic and human rights principles. Repressive governments have worked to undermine mechanisms that are meant to ensure accountability for rights abuses and to transform the United Nations (UN) its related bodies, and other international institutions into fora for mutual praise and exculpation.&nbsp;In this report, Rana Siu Inboden, a member of the IGCC network of scholars working on authoritarian regimes and international institutions, and a senior fellow with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin, unpacks what these threats mean and what can be done to stop them. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rz529q6 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Inboden, Rana Siu