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.
Sergio Fabbrini
Sergio Fabbrini is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Dean of the Political Science Department at Luiss University in Rome, where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He is also Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School, Harvard University (Spring Semester 2020). He co-founded and served as Director of the Luiss School of Government (2009-2018) and of the Trento University School of International Studies (2006-2009). He was the Editor of the “Italian Journal of Political Science” (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica) in the period 2004-2009 (the first editor after Giovanni Sartori who founded the journal in 1971 and directed it till 2003).
He was Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley. He was Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College, Oxford University, in the Spring Semester 2006. He was Jean Monnet Chair Professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, in the Fall Semester 2001 and Visiting Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute in Florence, in 2004. He was Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 1987-1988.
For his editorials for the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore, he was awarded the “Altiero Spinelli Prize 2017”, he won the 2011 “Capalbio Prize for Europe”, the 2009 “Filippo Burzio Prize for the Political Sciences” and the 2006 Amalfi European Prize for the Social Sciences. He was the Editor of the 9-volumes series on “The Institutions of Contemporary Democracies” for the Italian publisher G. Laterza. He published seventeen books, two co-authored books and twenty edited or co-edited books or journals’ special issues, and hundreds of scientific articles and essays in seven languages in the most important peer-reviewed international journals (among them, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Integration, International Political Science Review, Global Policy, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, European Politics and Society, European Journal of American Culture, International Spectator, Jourmal of Transatlantic Studies).
His publications in English include: Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order, (with Raffaele Marchetti, eds.) London, Routledge, 2016. Which European Union? Europe After the Euro Crisis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015; Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010 (second and revised edition); America and Its Critics: Vices and Virtues of the Democratic Hyperpower, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2008; Italy in the European Union. Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity (with Simona Piattoni, eds.), Lanham, Md, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007; The United States Contested. American Unilateralism and European Dissent (ed.), London, Routledge, 2006; Federalism and Democracy in the European Union and the United States. Exploring Post-National Governance (ed.), London, Routledge, 2005; Italy Between Europeanization and Domestic Politics (with V. Della Sala, eds), New York, N.Y. Oxford, Berghahn, 2004.
Álvaro Renedo
Álvaro Renedo was Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain from 2016 to 2018. During that period, he served as the Spanish Sous-sherpa both in the European Union and the G20, and was responsible for European policy (bilateral and inter-EU policy) and G20 policy within the Cabinet Office of the Spanish Government.
A career diplomat since 2006, he has held different positions in the field of European policy (Senior Advisor in the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government; Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union; Deputy to the Director-General of General Affairs and the Coordination of Policies related to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in the Secretary of State for the European Union; and Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of State for the European Union, amongst other positions).
From 2014 to 2016, he was Associate Professor in the Complutense University of Madrid (Department of Public International Law and International Relations), where he was senior lecturer in the following Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree courses: Legal and political systems of the European Union; Structure and dynamics of the international community; History of Spain’s foreign policy; and Research methods and techniques in international affairs. He has also been a frequent guest lecturer in the University of Salamanca, the University of Valencia, the University of Seville, the University of Cadiz, the Pontifical University of Comillas, the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies, the Spanish Lower House of Parliament, the Diplomatic Academy of Spain, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Budapest Security Conference, amongst other institutes.
He is the author of the following studies: “The evolution of the legislative and budgetary powers of the European Parliament: theory and praxis in communitarian democracy” (On Diplomacy and International Relations, vol. I, Publications of the Spanish Diplomatic Academy, Spain, 2008); and “The Spanish Presidency of the European Union and the fight against child poverty and social exclusion” (Child Poverty and Social Exclusion. Building equity... childhood development. Comillas Pontifical University, Child Platform, Spain, 2012).
Mr. Renedo holds a Law Degree and Business diploma, from ICADE Law and Business School (Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid).