The Impact of Digital Transformation on Power-Management Relations in the Changing International Landscape

Abstract

The development of new digital technologies provides an opportunity to create new business models and improve not only economic, but also socio-cultural and political processes. The development of the digital media space involves the construction and functioning of a new digital hybrid real-virtual structure. Digitalization in the modern sociopolitical reality acts, on the one hand, as a phenomenon of society’s vital activity (digital values, technological ideas and images, digital architecture and hardware, digital culture, interactive forms and models of interaction, etc.); and, on the other hand, as a process of quantitative and qualitative changes in the social system stem reflecting the transition from one type of socio-political relations to a fundamentally different one. The development of new digital media technologies expands the capabilities of state and non-state actors. One of the most important components in a digital society is the ability to generate new digital technologies. In a dramatically transforming global landscape, differences in interests, values and concepts of the global order are deepening, which sharply worsen any expectations of a sustainable partnership between countries, a reset or a significant improvement in interconnections. A special role in the formation of global power-management relations is now played by Russia, China, and the United States.