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.
To what extent do bureaucracies shape security decision-making in Iran? The seminar focuses on Iranian decision-making during a subset of major episodes of security decision-making such as the Iran-Iraq war and nuclear negotiations. This seminar also assesses the impact of bureaucracies and the interplay among different actors and institutions within the Iranian government on the process and policy outcome of these episodes.
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