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
Averell Schmidt is a predoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program. He is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the causes and consequences of states' decisions to violate, contest, or withdraw from treaties. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he was a fellow at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, served with the Peace Corps in Morocco, fought forest fires in the Sawtooth National Forest, and worked for public policy research organizations in Sri Lanka, Israel, Georgia, and Egypt. He holds an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Lewis & Clark College.
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