To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
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Security ResearchRSS
Juliette Kayyem details why the end of summer is a bitter reminder: America's coronavirus ordeal won’t end when 2020 does.
Security Experts
Dara Kay Cohen
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty, International Security Program; Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Ali Ahmad
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Gbemisola Abiola
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Diplomacy
Diplomacy ResearchRSS
When we emerge finally from the grip of the coronavirus, Americans will need to account for a public-health disaster that has killed well over 100,000 people to date and shuttered nearly every institution in our society (including Harvard) for much of the spring and into the summer.
Diplomacy Experts
Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project
Amir Levi
Senior Fellow, MIddle East Initiative
Julie Bishop
Fisher Family Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Energy & Environment
Energy & Environment ResearchRSS
Halla Hrund Logadóttir writes that an online education experiment which had been under development for years — at the speed of a medium-size turtle — became the new norm in an instant because of the COVID-19 disruption.
Energy & Environment Experts
Halla Hrund Logadóttir
Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program ; Co-Founder, Arctic Initiative ; Co-Director, Arctic Initiative
Cecilia Springer
Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program / Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Science & Technology
Science & Technology ResearchRSS
While some technologies are tearing us apart, the Tech Spotlight finalists, selected from over 200 submissions worldwide, are helping shape a better future.
Science & Technology Experts
John P. Holdren
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy; Co-Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Member of the Board, Belfer Center; President Obama's Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (January 2009 – January 2017)
Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Physics, Emeritus; Member of the Board, Belfer Center
Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom; Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2018–2020
