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.
The research presents a model of Iran’s decision-making behaviour and the development of its nuclear program during its negotiations with p5+1 over the past decade. The model demonstrates how Iran’s nuclear development, measured in terms of the SWU (separative work units) of Iran’s enrichment program, has been an important component of a bargaining strategy to maximize power, measured in terms of diplomatic, information and technology, military, and economic resources (DIME) .