Papers
Twenty-eight papers diagnosing Europe's digital dependency and the architecture to undo it. Filter by role to narrow to what matters to you; the cluster structure is the editorial argument.
Primer
Paper 0: Why Sovereign Data Matters
Define
Paper 1: The Sovereignty Illusion
Why Most European Organisations Have Lost Control of Their Data and Don't Know It
Paper 2: The Sovereignty Stack
A stack is only as sovereign as its weakest layer.
Paper 3: Sovereignty Washing
Where sovereignty cannot be supplied, the word is redefined.
Paper 4: Privacy and Sovereignty
Privacy is sovereignty applied to citizens.
Paper 5: The Quantum Resilience Paradox
Cryptographic primitives are the meta-trust layer.
Paper 6: State-Anchored Capitalism
How Europe Bought the Free-Market Myth
Paper 7: The Imported Constitution
European treaties subordinate cultural and social principles to single-market rules.
Paper 8: Pipeline Europe Never Built
Customer-shaped products win; report-shaped products lose.
Paper 9: Innovation Capture Pipeline
The innovation Europe produces is captured before it reaches scale.
Money
Paper 10: The Dollar Digital Continuum
From gold to dollars to clouds: one structure, five mediums.
Paper 11: The Payments Trap
Currency sovereignty without rail sovereignty is rhetoric.
Paper 12: The Stablecoin Stack
A stablecoin is sovereign at every layer or at none.
Paper 13: The Decentralisation Illusion
A protocol can be distributed and the system around it centralised.
Paper 14: The Digital Euro
A digital euro without a sovereign physical stack is a Position 4 product.
Paper 15: The Wholesale Digital Euro
Wholesale settlement is the layer where dollar-clearing leverage becomes operational.
Infrastructure
Paper 16: The Submarine Cable Question
Cable ownership is data jurisdiction by another name.
Paper 17: Space and Satellite Sovereignty
Space sovereignty is procurement sovereignty.
Paper 18: European Military Sovereignty
Defence systems running on American components are operable at American discretion.
Paper 19: Borrowed Eyes
Allied operations are foreign collection without operational doctrine that says so.
AI, Identity, Medical
Paper 20: The AI Europe Rents
Every argument for why Europe needs American frontier AI is an argument for why Europe must own the AI it uses.
Paper 21: The Identity Paradox
Identity sovereignty operationalises citizenship.
Paper 22: The Medical Inheritance
Medical secrecy is the inheritance that does not survive Position 4 infrastructure.
Information & Open Source
Paper 23: Information Sovereignty
What Europeans know about their world is filtered by algorithms they cannot audit.
Paper 24: The Open Source Sovereignty Gap
Open source is a moral architecture American platform owners have operated as a strategic instrument.
The Build
Paper 25: The Myth of Inevitable Dependence
Every successful European refusal followed the same pattern.
Paper 26: The Sovereign Incentive Model
Mandated demand defines the floor; tax architecture and investment routes capital through the architecture at every scale.
Paper 27: Whom You Obey
Sovereignty is a property of who can be compelled; the European project answers, us, by our own institutions, under our own law.