Author: Cai Cuihong
Abstract: Emerging technologies, by virtue of their foundational, architectural, procedural, and pervasive characteristics, have gradually evolved into a structural force reshaping global security governance. Rather than manifesting as an external impact, this force progressively transforms the operational logic of governance systems through multi-layered embeddedness into governance instruments, objects, and environments, thereby rendering technology an integral component of institutional structures. As these structural forces accumulate, they generate systemic transformations across three dimensions: governance logic, governance authority, and governance order. This process drives a transition in global security governance from a single-domain governance system centered on sovereignty and territory to a novel cross-domain, multi-layered, and assemblage-based governance structure, offering a new analytical framework for comprehending and advancing global security governance in the age of emerging technologies.
Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Structural Force; Global Security Governance
Journal: Governance, (04).
Publish date: 2026/2/28
