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.
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Alex Yu-Ting Lin is a Research Fellow with the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Southern California. His book project examines how provocations from smaller states trigger and exacerbate the competition for status and prestige between the rising power and the established great powers. His other research examines Chinese economic statecraft and regional order in the Asia Pacific. Previously, he was a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, at the George Washington University.
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