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.
Jen Psaki is Vice President for Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She previously served as White House Communications Director in Barack Obama’s administration from 2015 to 2017 and as the spokesperson at the State Department under then Secretary of State John Kerry from 2013 to 2015. Prior to joining the State Department in 2013, Psaki served as Deputy White House Communications Director, working hand in hand with the economic team during the financial crisis, and as a senior adviser and traveling press secretary for the Obama campaigns during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.