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.
MTA/ISP Research Fellow Ian Stewart will explore the effectiveness of supply-side controls based not only on the ability of these tools to deny access to proliferation sensitive technology, but also other goals which may be attributed to these measures.