Digital Sovereignty Diplomacy: Structural Challenges for Small States in the Technological Era

The analysis of digital sovereignty challenges demonstrates that twenty-first-century foreign policy is shifting away from traditional diplomacy toward a more complex architecture in which technological infrastructures, global standards, data flows, and regulatory capacities are deeply interconnected. For small states—including Albania and those of the Western Balkans—these dynamics generate not only structural vulnerabilities but also new opportunities for strategic positioning...