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.
MTA Fellow Ian Stewart talks about engaging the private sector in nonproliferation efforts by supplementing export controls and sanctions with anti-proliferation in the supply chain.
Proliferation increasingly requires the indigenisation of the nuclear fuel cycle and the acquisition from overseas of proliferation-sensitive technologies. However, the tools used by the international community to deny proliferants access to these prerequisite goods -- technology sanctions and state-centric export controls -- are increasingly challenged by the globalisation of the manufacturing base and complex trade pathways. This presentation introduces the principle of "anti-proliferation" in the private sector's supply chains and considers how it could supplement state-centric export controls.