Sovereign Systems: Technology, Coordination, and the Future of Nations

Sovereign Systems Technology, Coordination, and the Future of Nations How Interdependence Scales Without Erasing Autonomy Michael Dente As technology connects nations more tightly than ever before, sovereignty is often framed as a casualty of interdependence. Cooperation is assumed to require submission. Autonomy is treated as incompatible with scale. Sovereign Systems challenges this assumption. Rather than approaching sovereignty as a political ideology, this book examines it as a systems problem. It asks why modern global systems have become brittle, why centralization repeatedly produces instability, and how coordination can occur without domination. Drawing on principles from network design, infrastructure theory, and adaptive systems, the book shows how nations can remain autonomous while participating in shared technological and economic networks. It explains why forced integration fails, why digital control undermines trust, and why stability emerges more reliably from alignment than enforcement. Topics include: why scale outpaced stability in modern systems centralization as a source of systemic risk networks that coordinate without centers feedback, trust, and legitimacy in digital governance sovereignty without isolation cooperation without subordination multipolar stability and failure modes technology that preserves autonomy governance after control Written in a calm, analytical tone, Sovereign Systems does not advocate a political agenda or prescribe policy. Instead, it clarifies the structural conditions under which sovereignty and interdependence can coexist. For readers interested in: geopolitics and global systems technology and governance infrastructure and sovereignty complexity and coordination the future of nations in a connected world Sovereign Systems presents a framework for understanding how stability can be designed—without conquest, coercion, or collapse.