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.
A panel discussion on the recent protests in Lebanon and Iraq, featuring Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative & PhD Candidate in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Jeffrey G. Karam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University and Associate, Middle East Initiative, Dr. Shamiran Mako, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, and Christiana Parreira, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.
