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 seminar will examine three successful peace settlements (of varying degrees of success), Franco-German reconciliation after World War II, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979, and the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty of 1994, to determine what brings regional rivals to bury the hatchet and what accounts for variations in the quality of peace. The central argument is that successful peacemaking starts as a realist, statist endeavor, based on reasons of state and the interests of governments. Nonetheless, settlements are more likely to endure when they are socialized by liberal, societal mechanisms after the initial agreement is reached.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.