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.
Nadiya Kostyuk is a Fellow for the Cybersecurity Project at the Belfer Center and is completing her PhD at the University of Michigan in Political Science and Public Policy. She is also as a research fellow at the Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Digital Economy, and Civic Tech Initiative at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs during the 2017-2018 academic year. Nadiya's research interests are states' cyber capacities; cyber attacks as coercive tools; mapping physical and 'digital' fronts. Her regional expertise include post-Soviet countries. She is currently a fellow at EastWest Institute of Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative.