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.
The presentation explores the conditions under which a small number of states (Indonesia, Morocco, Israel) launched and maintained settlement projects in disputed territories in order to secure territorial expansion. Counterintuitively, it demonstrates that settlement projects do not reflect the settling states' disregard to the international environment but rather their recognition that international interactions, norms, and institutions matter and could be manipulated.
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