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.
Dr Tim Oliver is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and an Associate of LSE IDEAS, the LSE’s foreign policy think tank. He is the author of ‘Understanding Brexit: A concise introduction’ (Polity Press, 2018) and ‘Europe’s Brexit: EU Responses to Britain’s Vote to Leave’ (Agenda, 2018). He was previously a Dahrendorf Fellow at LSE IDEAS, has taught at the LSE, UCL, and for several years as a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and been a researcher and visiting fellow at NYU, RAND, the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. He has also worked in the House of Lords and the European Parliament.