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This essay provides an overview of three avenues by which emerging technology affects the international order: perceptions of technological effects, alliance integration and operability, and compliance with liberal ordering principles. It concludes with three recommendations for policymakers. First, strategically implement the ‘hype’ surrounding emerging technologies. Second, when integrating technology into alliance doctrine, carefully address abandonment and entrapment concerns to ensure ally buy-in. Finally, understand that technological advances have changed the set of options available to policymakers below the level of armed conflict, thereby reverberating on perceptions of the liberal order and opening alternative routes to state alignment.
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