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Even the Intellectual Left is Drawn to Conspiracy Theories about the Right. Resist Them with Steven Teles
It’s always hard in politics for people to take their opponents’ views seriously, but it’s become ever harder in Trump’s America. People are more engaged ...
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Consensus, Dissensus and Economic Ideas: Economic Crisis and the Rise and Fall of Keynesianism – with John Quiggin
Henry Farrell and John Quiggin (2017), “Consensus, Dissensus and Economic Ideas: Economic Crisis and the Rise and Fall of Keynesianism,” International Studies Quarterly,61,1:269-283. Subsequent subject of ...
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Trump’s No Hypocrite: And That’s Bad News for the International Order – with Martha Finnemore
U.S. President Donald Trump can be accused of having many faults, but hypocrisy is not one of them. To be sure, Trump is wildly inconsistent. ...
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The Role of Effects, Saliencies and Norms in U.S. Cyberwar Doctrine – with Charles Glaser
The US approach to cybersecurity implicitly rests on an effects-based logic. That is, it presumes that the key question determining how the US and others ...
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Brexit, Voice and Loyalty: Rethinking Electoral Politics in an Age of Interdependence – with Abraham Newman
In the wake of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, known as Brexit, scholars of international affairs have a chance to reflect ...
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Facebook and Falsehood
After the election, many people blamed Facebook for spreading partisan — and largely pro-Trump — “fake news,” like Pope Francis’s endorsement of Trump, or Hillary ...
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Disunited Kingdom
Britain’s political system is in crisis after Brexit. Shortly after voters decided that Britain should leave the European Union, David Cameron, the prime minister and ...
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The New Interdependence Approach: Theoretical Development and Empirical Demonstration – with Abraham Newman
Mainstream approaches to international political economy seek to explain the political transformations that have made more open trade relations possible. They stress how changing coalitions ...
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How the Twilight of the Elites Explains Trump’s Appeal
Chris Hayes’s book Twilight of the Elites came out to respectful reviews and respectable sales in 2012, yet the book’s real moment is right now. ...
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Globalized Green Lanternism
American political commentators have frequently called for the U.S. president to take effective action to improve world economic growth. Such calls are a form of ...
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The Irish Question: The Consequences of Brexit
The United Kingdom’s historic decision to leave the EU has stunned Brussels and sent shock waves through Europe. The Scottish government has threatened to hold ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume
“Global Institutions without a Global State,” in the Oxford Handbook on Historical Institutionalism – with Martha Finnemore – eds. Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia Falletti and Adam Sheingate
Historical institutionalism has not yet grappled with the deeper intellectual challenges of “going global.” Understanding international, particularly global, institutions, requires attention to and theorizing of ...
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The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty: How the Leak May Transform Politics
The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have already had political ...
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Bitcoin is Losing the Midas Touch
Bitcoin, the decentralised, mainly digital currency that is neither issued nor guaranteed by central banks, has always seemed like a magic trick. Rather than spinning ...
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Called Out: The Global Consequences of Apple’s Fight with the FBI
By now, the details of Apple’s fight with the FBI are well known: the FBI wants access to an iPhone belonging to the deceased terrorism ...
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Here Be Dragons
There have been many books written on cybersecurity over the last several years—this is by far the best. People will disagree with it—there are claims ...
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The Transatlantic Data War: Europe Fights Back against the NSA – with Abraham Newman
Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15-year-old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to transfer data, such ...
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Structuring Power: Business and Authority Beyond the Nation-State – with Abraham Newman
What is the relationship between globalization and the political power of business? Much of the existing literature focuses on the ability of mobile capital to ...
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“Cognitive Democracy,” in Youth, New Media and Political Participation – with Cosma Shalizi – eds. Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light
In Parts I through III, we extended the definition of the political, acquired a richer view of participation, explored how to model and analyze partic-ipation ...
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Promoting Norms for Cyberspace
The United States defined its preferred cyberspace norms—Internet openness, security, liberty, free speech, and with minimal government oversight and surveillance—in its 2011 International Strategy for ...
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Dark Leviathan
The Silk Road might have started as a libertarian experiment, but it was doomed to end as a fiefdom run by pirate kings The Hidden ...
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Ireland’s Cold War
The end of the Cold War didn’t have obvious consequences for everyday life in Ireland. The great battle with communism seemed irrelevant to a country ...
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Big Brother’s Liberal Friends
IT IS strange that the Obama administration has so avidly continued many of the national-security policies that the George W. Bush administration endorsed. The White ...
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The New Politics of Interdependence: Cross-National Layering in Trans-Atlantic Regulatory Disputes – with Abraham Newman
How are regulatory disputes between the major powers resolved? Existing literature generally characterizes such regulatory disagreements as system clash, in which national systems of regulation ...
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New Problems, New Publics? Dewey and New Media
This is a response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in this issue of Policy & Internet (2014: vol. 6, ...
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