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
Marsin Alshamary is a former 2019-2020 Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative. Alshamary holds a PhD in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was also part of the Security Studies Program. While at the Middle East Initiative Alshamary's work generally covered the intersection of religion and politics in the Middle East, with a particular focus on clerical involvement in the formal and informal politics. Her dissertation explored the role of religious leaders in anti-government protest in Iraq. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Project on Middle East Political Science and the Center for International Studies at MIT. Alshamary holds a BA from Wellesley College, where she was an Albright Fellow.
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