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.
A panel discussion with Elisabeth Sifton, editor and publisher, and author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, a memoir of her father, Reinhold Niebuhr; Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; J. Bryan Hehir, president of Catholic Charities USA; and Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy, Kennedy School of Government and senior fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center.