Threats and Challenges to Scientific Sovereignty (Critical Analysis)

This article presents a philosophical, sociological, and political-economic analysis of three interrelated systemic threats undermining the foundations of scientific sovereignty in the modern world. First, the phenomenon of cognitive colonialism and structural epistemic inequality, which transforms developing societies into intellectual "raw material appendages." Second, the dictatorship of global scientometrics—a legitimized form of symbolic violence, in which transnational corporate databases (such as Scopus and Web of Science) exercise total control over the distribution of symbolic capital and act as instruments of "soft power." Third, there is the existential aspect of the "brain drain," understood not simply as the spatial migration of human capital, but as the fundamental alienation of intellectual labor and the irreversible biopolitical extraction of the creative potential of sovereign societies. Thus, addressing these issues requires a synthesis of decolonial critique, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of knowledge, and existential-Marxist analysis, which will reveal the latent mechanisms of global cognitive domination.