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.
John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University’s Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History and one of the founders of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, will join Graham Allison, Harvard University’s Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Applied History Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for a discussion of his new book, On Grand Strategy.
A guide to grand strategy as Applied History from Xerxes to FDR, the book allows the reader to become a student in Professor Gaddis’s legendary course on strategy at Yale.
This event is open to the public, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Refreshments will be provided.