STRATEGIC SOVEREIGNTY ENGINEERING: A THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CONVERSION OF STATE RESOURCES INTO AUTONOMOUS CAPACITY
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Economic complexity, Industrial policy, Sovereignty, State capacity, Strategic Sovereignty Engineering, Technological autonomyAbstract
This article formulates the theoretical-methodological framework of Strategic Sovereignty Engineering (SSE) — an interdisciplinary field that investigates how states convert endowments of natural, human, financial, technological, and industrial resources into autonomous strategic capacity. SSE synthesizes three theoretical lineages — developmental political economy (List, Hamilton, Furtado), national innovation systems and economic complexity (Hausmann, Hidalgo, Nelson), and the developmental state tradition (Evans, Johnson, Mazzucato) — into an operational architecture comprising definition, axioms, methods, indicators, and an empirical application protocol. The article differentiates SSE from adjacent fields, presents a sovereignty dashboard with measurable indicators, and illustrates the framework through comparative case studies (South Korea, Brazil, China, and Norway). It is demonstrated that strategic autonomy is an emergent property of institutional architectures integrating directed industrialization, innovation systems, a defense industrial base, and critical supply-chain governance.
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