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.
Speaker: Narushige Michishita, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
In this seminar, Professor Michishita will examine developments on the Korean Peninsula over the past few decades, and pose several different future scenarios. He will then explain how Japan would respond to each scenario, and how each scenario will also affect Japan's security and foreign policies in the long run.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund and the International Security Program
For more information, email the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Program Coordinator at astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu