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.
Juliette Kayyem
Homeland Security Adviser to Governor Deval Patrick and
Undersecretary of Public Safety for Homeland Security
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
What challenges does a new administration face in tak?ing over responsibility for Homeland Security? What is the emergency prepared?ness and response agenda for Massachusetts in years ahead?
Juliette Kayyem is a former KSG lecturer and executive director of the Belfer Center, who previously served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorism and as a legal adviser to US Attorney General Janet Reno during the Clinton Administration. She is the co-author of Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror and co-edit?or of First to Arrive: State and Local Responses to Terrorism.
**Light refreshments will be served**