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.
Panelists:
Joseph Bahout
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Sciences Po Paris
Fred Hof
Senior Fellow, The Alantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Mona Yacoubian
Senior Advisor on the Middle East
Project Director, Pathways to Progress: Peace, Prosperity and Change in the Middle East
Meghan O’Sullivan (moderator)
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School