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.
When the Cold War ended, politicians and pundits around the world foresaw a benevolent "new world order" that would finally supplant the competitive world of old-fashioned power politics. Americans were particularly optimistic, and many believed that core U.S. values of democracy, human rights, and competitive market economics would spread around the world and usher in a long era of peace and prosperity. Now, some fifteen years later, this rosy vision seems both naive and increasingly distant. So what went wrong? What lessons should we draw for foreign policy (or international relations theory) today?
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