The Fracturing Nexus: Technological Decoupling as the New World Order and Its Implications on Developing Nations

Abstract

Technology decoupling, spurred by the escalating great power competition among the likes of the United States and China,  is remaking the world order. This research report investigates the reasons, mechanisms and implications and in particular developing countries: for this phenomenon. While the interconnected technological ecosystem is replaced with a network of independent, multipolar systems, the developing world must face numerous challenges,  including supply chain disruptions, compromised access to essential technologies, and deepening economic inequities. It reflects on the pressing necessity of cooperative mechanisms to prevent developing countries from being marginalized in a new world order, and calls for a proper handling of the relationship between technology dependence and the world in favour of global development and stability. With country cases of developing nations, the report emphasises that decoupling will have the most severe economic, social, and political consequences in the Global South, as well as the presence of regional innovation and diversification opportunities. The study shows that the technological decoupling widens the digital gap, endangers the success of the SDGs, and leads the developing countries to difficult geopolitical choices.

Keywords: Technological Decoupling, New World Order, Implications, Developing Nations