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.
Today's counternarcotics chic contains the idea of fundamental synergies between fighting drugs and fighting terrorism and between fighting drugs and promoting democracy around the world. Yet counternarcotics efforts frequently greatly complicate counterterrorism and counterinsurgency objectives and undermine stabilization in fragile situations.
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