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.
Biography
Alexandra Stark was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative. She is a PhD candidate (expected 2019) in International Relations at Georgetown University. Her dissertation research analyzes the conditions under which states in the MENA region are likely to intervene in civil wars. Her research is supported by the USIP-Minerva Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, the Project on Middle East Political Science, and the Cosmos Scholars Foundation. She holds an MSc in International Relations from LSE and a BA from Wellesley College, where she was an Albright Fellow.
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