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.
Why do so few vulnerable states pursue nuclear weapons? Why do even fewer actually obtain nuclear weapons? This seminar examines the cases of Iraq and Libya and proposes a multicausal analytical framework for analyzing state decisions about nuclear weapons.
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