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.
Join the Harvard European Law Association lunch talk on the Fragility of EU Law-making with Judith Merkies, former Member of the European Parliament and Alvaro Renedo Zalba, Spanish career diplomat.
Location: WCC 2009, Harvard Law School
Non-pizza lunch will be served
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Speakers:
Judith Merkies is a former Member of the European Parliament (for the Netherlands). She is an experienced international lawyer specialized in European law and has worked in the private sector and in the European Commission before being elected to Parliament. Special focus: (the lack of) public policy response to the impact on society by disruptive innovations.
Álvaro Renedo Zalba is a Spanish career diplomat specialized in EU affairs for the past 13 years. He served as Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain. Álvaro Renedo Zalba is also an academic. His current research project focuses on the ways to optimize efficiency in existing channels of diplomatic interlocution between the EU and the US administration.