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
Rob Knake is a Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and a Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Rob served from 2011 to 2015 as Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council. In this role, he was responsible for the development of Presidential policy on cybersecurity and built and managed Federal processes for cyber incident response and vulnerability management. Rob is co-author of Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It and the Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats.
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