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.
How has the advent of nuclear weapons affected the politics of decision-making and control in military alliances? Existing theory of alliance politics—and, in particular, the logic of the alliance security dilemma—is largely derived from the experiences of European states in the pre-nuclear era. As a result, scholars assume that whether or not alliances face the prospect of nuclear-armed conflict is incidental to the management of fears of military abandonment and entrapment among their member states. By critically examining this "conventional assumption" in existing accounts, this presentation seeks to develop a new basis for analyzing contemporary military alliances and predicting their cohesion, durability, and structure.
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