Sovereigns Without Flags: Tech Elites, Digital Infrastructure, and the Future of Democratic Government

In an age when power no longer resides only in parliaments and palaces, Profesor Rodrigo explores the rise of a new governing class: tech elites, cloud empires, AI systems, and digital infrastructures that increasingly shape freedom, security, and sovereignty. Blending political theory, geopolitical analysis, and vivid speculative scenarios set in 2045, Sovereigns Without Flags reveals how states, corporations, platforms, and networks now share-and contest-the power to identify, regulate, predict, and control. From data centers and chip supply chains to digital identity and algorithmic governance, this book maps the new architecture of authority. Urgent, accessible, and provocative, this is an essential book for readers of politics, technology, law, and international affairs. If you want to understand who governs the individual in the AI age-and what democratic freedom will require to survive-start here.