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: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Middle East Initiative
This seminar considers intervention policies that can be characterized as half-measures: their stated goals do not match what they can be reasonably expected to achieve. The trajectory of U.S. policies on the Syrian civil war is scrutinized to develop the concept of half-measures and to understand how their effects compare to those of other policy options.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
For more information, email the International Security Program Assistant at susan_lynch@harvard.edu.