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
Eleanor Freund is a 2017-2018 Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on U.S.-China relations, Chinese foreign policy, and Asia-Pacific security issues. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Research Assistant at the Belfer Center. She is currently a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and will begin a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August 2018.
Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Eleanor was a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. and a student at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She earned a B.A. in political science, with highest honors, from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013.
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