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.
While leaders on both sides of the Atlantic appear to lose faith in the transatlantic partnership and continue to turn their focus inward, the list of common, external challenges to peace, stability and economic prosperity appears to be endless.
Join the Belfer Center's Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in the John F. Kennedy Forum to hear about the current state of affairs between the U.S., Canada and Europe and about ways forward from Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute, Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Susan Glasser, Staff Writer at the New Yorker and Professor Nicholas Burns, Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.