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.
This talk reviews the conventional thinking about the causes, consequences, and remedies related to nuclear proliferation. It examines the empirical basis for our theories of nuclear decision-making and the frequent disconnect in policy circles between beliefs about motivation and the preference for traditional instrumentalities.