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.
What can scholars and policymakers learn from U.S. nonproliferation policy toward hard cases like India? Can the United States prevent proliferation when the state already has the indigenous capability to produce fissile materials and has high regional threat perception? The presentation examines the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's policies towards India's nuclear weapons ambitions during a crucial period, when New Delhi accumulated plutonium from its reprocessing plant, experienced a conventional war with Pakistan, faced border disputes with nuclear-armed China, had major tensions with Washington, and actively negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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