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 purpose of this presentation is to examine the strategic logic of reprisal violence in post-conflict states. In particular, it will seek to identify under which conditions reprisal violence emerges in these states and what purposes this violence can serve in changing the effective terms of a peace settlement. It will also specify its relationship with revenge violence and highlight the difficulties associated with empirically detecting reprisal violence in these states. It will conclude with a brief discussion of the policy implications and an agenda for future research.
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