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.
In his dissertation, Assaf Moghadam argues that existing explanations of the causes of suicide terrorism tend to focus on a traditional, localized pattern of suicide attacks that steadily decreases in relevance. Most contemporary suicide attacks embody an altogether different, transnational pattern of this modus operandi. Whereas nationalism may have been at the root of the traditional phenomenon of suicide attacks, the current manifestation of suicide operations is more a function of globalization and the spread of radical Salafi ideology.
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