The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Stra torrent

This study discusses the opportunities that may be raised by the emergence of noopolitik--ranging from construction of noosphere to recommendations.

This report builds on what we have accomplished so far in a set ofstudies, since 1991, about future military affairs (cyberwar), societal-levelconflict and crime (netwar), and information strategy (see theBibliography for relevant citations). Here we advance the idea of"noopolitik" (n-oh-poh-li-teek), a new approach to statecraft basedprincipally on the primacy of ideas, values, laws, and ethics, as enabledby the emergence of the noosphere (an all-encompassingrealm of the mind), to extend our research agenda in a new direction.Primarily of interest to U.S. policymakers and strategists, this reportwill also interest those in academia and think tanks concerned withhow the information revolution is altering the conditions for andconduct of strategy.This study was prepared for a project on information strategy. Theproject was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary ofDefense/Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence(OASD/C3I), and was conducted within both the Acquisition andTechnology Policy Center and the International Security and DefensePolicy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute (NDRI).NDRI is a federally funded research and development center sponsoredby the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, theUnified Commands, and the defense agencies.John Arquilla David RonfeldtU.S. Naval Postgraduate School RANDMonterey, CA 93943 Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138(408) 656-3450 (310) [email protected] [email protected]
About the Author

John Arquilla (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a Rand consultant and a professor of foreign policy at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. David F. Ronfeldt (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a Senior Social Scientist at Rand whose research focus includes information revolution, netwar, cyberocracy, strategic swarming and the rise of transnational networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).


Publisher Rand Publishing (April 15, 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10 0833026984
ISBN-13 978-0833026989


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