Henry Farrell

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost

Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe.

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The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas

October 7, 2005 Chronicle of Higher Education The Australian Higher Education Supplement
In July 2004 an anonymous blogger revealed his identity when he allowed his photograph to be taken at the Democratic National Convention. “Atrios,” the writer of a prominent left-wing blog, Eschaton, turned out to be Duncan Black, an assistant professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College. Black had worried that a trenchant political blog might ...
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The Modern History of Economic Sanctions

March 1, 2022 Lawfare
Nicholas Mulder’s new book, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War,” remakes debates over European history between the two world wars. It rescues the League of Nations from the enormous condescension of posterity, arguing that the league was neither ridiculous nor doomed. However, it also demonstrates that the league’s ...
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