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.
Seminar - Open to the Public
The US and Israel-Palestine: National Security, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
PAST EVENTWed., Nov. 14, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Harvard Law School
Please join ILSP: Law and Social Change and the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law for a discussion on challenges to the rule of law and human rights protection in Israel-Palestine, and the impact of recent shifts in United States policy. Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, will discuss recent state responses to national security challenges and their impact on civil society, media freedoms, and spaces of human rights advocacy. Dakwar will draw on his extensive experiences as a human rights attorney in both Israel and the United States, and reflect on the continuous struggles for accountability and the rule of law, both domestically and through international mechanisms.
Lunch will be served. The event will take place at Wasserstein Hall, Room 1019, HLS.
Co-sponsored by HLS Advocates for Human Rights, HLS ACLU, the Middle East Law Students Association, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and the Middle East Initiative at HKS.
AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner
Israelis hold American and Israeli flags with the new U.S. embassy in the background in Jerusalem, Monday, May 14, 2018.