The Algorithmic Monroe Doctrine: How Washington Is Carving Cognitive Sovereignty Through Compliance

The United States AI export programme - comprising the American AI Exports Program, SAFE Chips Act, federal pre-emption of state AI laws, and the December 2025 National Security Strategy - has constructed a compliance architecture that delivers deployment speed and regulatory alignment to partner nations while systematically withholding constitutional command authority over the autonomous systems deployed under it. Nations operating the American AI stack comply with Washington's regulatory framework but lack independent algorithmic kill-switch authority, forensic failover charters, or pre-execution override capability over models running on their own national infrastructure.

This paper documents the three instruments through which cognitive sovereignty is transferred through compliance rather than force, and presents the Fijishi Meta-Compliance Architecture and Sovereign Algorithmic Immunity Doctrine as the constitutional command layer that non-US sovereigns require to exercise genuine algorithmic authority over imported AI infrastructure - without displacing or opposing the American stack.