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.
Speaker: Naomi Hirose Executive Vice Chairman (Fukushima Affairs); President (2012-17), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc.
Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute