Description
In the past few years, the ill-defined concept of strategic autonomy has been broadened far beyond military capabilities to include digital, technological and economic sovereignty. These trends are particularly evident in the speeches of Thierry Breton and often couched in terms of strategic industries and technological futures. This paper argues that ideas are often drawn from French sociotechnical imaginaries of the future and reflect the unusually prominent place of defence industries in French economic planning (Kolodziej, 1987). The paper looks at whether these imaginaries can or cannot be successfully exported to an EU where many states have very different visions.
