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The Brussels Bubble

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2026

Rebecca Adler-Nissen  and
Kristin Anabel Eggeling
Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Kristin Anabel Eggeling
Affiliation:
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

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The Brussels Bubble
Inside the European Union in the Digital Age
 , pp. i - ii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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The Brussels Bubble

What happens when European politics goes digital? Behind the scenes in European Union institutions, a quiet transformation is reshaping the way power works. Based on long-term ethnographic research, this book follows diplomats, civil servants, spokespersons and interpreters through the corridors, meeting rooms, cafés and smartphone screens of Brussels’ European Quarter. Against the backdrop of Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine, it reveals how digital technologies have become inseparable from the practice of international politics – reshaping trust, tact and authority in unexpected ways. Far from a tale of technological revolution, The Brussels Bubble exposes digitalisation as a messy, human negotiation about what diplomacy and Europe itself mean today. Combining vivid narrative with sharp theoretical insight, it offers a rare, inside view of how global governance, technology and human interaction intertwine at the heart of European power. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen and serves as Director of the National Centre for AI in Society in Denmark.

Kristin Anabel Eggeling is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and affiliated researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute for International Studies.

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