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
Jacqueline L. Hazelton is an International Security Program Associate for 2020–2021. She is an assistant professor in the department of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College.
Hazelton specializes in international security. Her research interests include grand strategy, military intervention, counterinsurgency, terrorism, and U.S. foreign and military policy. She received her Ph.D. from the Brandeis University Politics Department. Her B.A. and first M.A. are in English Literature from the University of Chicago. Her second M.A., also from Chicago, is in international relations. Her book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare, is forthcoming in May 2021 with the Cornell University Press Studies in Security Affairs series. At the Belfer Center, Hazelton will be writing her second book, which is on the reasons why Western great powers sometimes set ambitious liberalizing goals for military interventions.
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