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 this seminar, Professor Lipscy will examine the institutional origins of energy and climate change policies. More specifically, the presentation will illustrate how particular electoral institutions either insulate or empower diffuse consumers, and impact energy conservation and climate mitigation policies. The argument explains why Japan turned from a “leader” to a “laggard” in global environmental policy.
Speaker: Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor of Political Science; The Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Moderator: Christina Davis, Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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