Marie Thøgersen
@GersenMarie
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Marie Thøgersen is a PhD fellow at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Her research explores the role of international law in the contemporary world order, marked by transnational capital flows, global value chains, and a growing concentration of wealth.
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‘An Attack on Maersk Strikes Everywhere at Once’: International law and the Political Economy of Digitalization
October 24, 2024
Marie Thøgersen
In June 2017, the Danish shipping giant Maersk faced a monumental crisis that highlighted both the fragility of modern digital infrastructure and the centrality of information technology to global capitalism: a targeted cyberattack against Ukraine spiraled into a worldwide outage, crippling Maersk’s information technology systems and halting operations in ports across the globe. With 4,000 servers and 45,000…
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‘An Attack on Maersk Strikes Everywhere at Once’: International law and the Political Economy of Digitalization
October 24, 2024
Marie Thøgersen
In June 2017, the Danish shipping giant Maersk faced a monumental crisis that highlighted both the fragility of modern digital infrastructure and the centrality of information technology to global capitalism: a targeted cyberattack against Ukraine spiraled into a worldwide outage, crippling Maersk’s information technology systems and halting operations in ports across the globe. With 4,000 servers and 45,000…