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.
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the department of History at Columbia University, and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. Khalidi is the author of numerous award-winning books which have been translated into several languages and over 110 scholarly articles. His most recent book is The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 .
Rosie Bsheer is an historian of the modern Middle East and Assistant Professor of History at Harvard. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro- capitalism and state formation, and the production of historical knowledge and commemorative spaces. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (2014) and comes to Harvard University from Yale University, where she was Assistant Professor of History (2014–2018). She is the recipient of the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching at Yale University (2017) and Yale College’s Sarai Ribicoff ‘75 Award for the Encouragement of Teaching (2018).