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.
Shivshankar Menon was Foreign Secretary of India from 2006 to 2009. He has served as Ambassador and High Commissioner to Israel, Sri Lanka, China and Pakistan. As a career diplomat, he served in China (thrice), in Japan, and in Austria in the Embassy and the Mission to the IAEA and UN. He was also seconded to the Department of Atomic Energy in the early eighties. His professional experience was concentrated on India’s neighbours, atomic energy and disarmament, and India’s relations with the major powers. He was actively involved in the negotiation of the India-US civil nuclear initiative.
Professor Burns will moderate the event