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.
For at least two decades, Israel has been signaling that it is concerned with the prospect of a hostile Iran armed with nuclear weapons. The presentation explores the specific kinds of threats Israeli policymakers are worried about, analyzes how these threat perceptions have changed over time, and investigates what the internal political and strategic factors are that color and shape them.
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