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Author: Henry Farrell

Academic Article

Ontology, Methodology and Causation in the American School of International Political Economy – with Martha Finnemore

February 7, 2009 eds. (2010) International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide. Review of International Political Economy. Republished in Catherine Weaver and Nicola Phillips with Martha Finnemore
This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can ...
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Essay

Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?

December 11, 2008 The American Prospect
Public intellectuals don’t agree on much. However, in recent years they seemed to nearly unanimously believe that American public life was in terrible shape. Political ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Privacy in the Digital Age: States, Private Actors and Hybrid Arrangements,” in Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Power and Policy – eds. William Drake and Ernest Wilson

December 5, 2008 eds. William Drake and Ernest Wilson The MIT Press: 2008
Privacy has emerged as a key regulatory issue in the wake of the information and communications revolution. New technologies have brought new problems; they have ...
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Academic Article

Institutions and Majority Rule in Online Communities – with Melissa Schwartzberg

October 9, 2008 Ethics and International Affairs with Melissa Schwartzberg
Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online Much work in political science and political theory, ranging from the arguments of eighteenth-century political theorists, such as Condorcet ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Socialist Surrealism: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels,” in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction – eds. Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox

July 7, 2008 eds. Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox featured University of South Carolina Press: 2008
How do politics and the science fiction and fantasy genres inform each other? Science fiction has always had a strong undercurrent of utopianism – writers ...
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Essay

Balancing National Security and Commerce: Information Politics in the New Transatlantic Agenda

March 1, 2008 Report for the German Marshall Fund
Following several years of tension between Europe and the United States, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have rediscovered pragmatism. Apparently irreconcilable differences of ...
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Book review

Underworlds (Review Essay on Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah)

December 10, 2007 Book review The Nation
Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word. Roberto Saviano is a marked man. After writing Gomorrah and publicly ...
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Academic Article

Introduction: Blogs, Politics and Power – with Daniel W. Drezner

September 27, 2007 Bloggers Blogs Internet
There is good reason to believe that blogs are changing politics, but we don’t know exactly how. Nor do we know whether the normative consequences ...
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Academic Article

The Power and Politics of Blogs

September 9, 2007 Bloggers Blogs Internet
The rise of bloggers raises the vexing question of why blogs have any influence at all, given their relatively low readership and lack of central ...
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Academic Article

“Conclusions,” in West European Politics – with Adrienne Hèritier

March 15, 2007 EU West European Politics 30 with Adrienne Hèritier
The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide ...
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American Behavioral Scientist 57 (1)
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Chronicle of Higher Education (2)
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Comparative Political Studies (2)
Comparative Political Studies 37 (1)
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Council on Foreign Relations Cyber Brief (1)
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ed. Colin Crouch Patrick Le Galès Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow (1)
ed. Michelle Egan (1)
ed. Russell Hardin (1)
eds. (2010) International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide. (1)
eds. Daniel Drezner Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (1)
eds. Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light (1)
eds. Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (1)
eds. Hal Brand and Francis J. Gavin (1)
eds. Johannes Glückler Roy Suddaby and Regina Lenz (1)
eds. Karen Cook Russell Hardin and Margaret Levi (1)
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European Journal of Physics 40 (1)
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International Organization Vol 75 (1)
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International Security 44 (1)
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Review of International Political Economy (2)
Review of International Political Economy. Republished in Catherine Weaver and Nicola Phillips (1)
Review of International Political Economy24 (1)
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United States Institute of Peace (2)
University of South Carolina Press: 2008 (1)
US politics (1)
Vector (1)
Vice (1)
Vox (1)
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Wall Street Journal (2)
Washington Post (3)
Weaponized Interdependence (10)
West European Politics 30 (4)
WIRED (online) (1)
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with Abraham Newman (43)
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with Bruce Schneier (8)
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with Charles Glaser (1)
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with Cosma Shalizi (4)
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with Elizabeth Saunders (1)
with Eric Lawrence and John Sides (1)
with Gregory Flynn (1)
with Hahrie Han (1)
with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg (2)
with Jack Knight (3)
with James Evans (1)
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with John Sides (1)
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with Margaret Levi (1)
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with Marion Fourcade (3)
with Martha Finnemore (5)
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with Michael Cohen and Martha Finnemore (1)
with Nils Gilman (1)
with Rick Perlstein (1)
with Sean Aday (3)
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with Steven Teles (1)
World Politics (1)
World Politics 40 (1)
Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie (1)

Substack

  • Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
  • The attention economy is devouring politics
  • The management singularity
  • Vico's Singularity
  • Shoggoths amongst us

Other Notes

  • Henry's guide to good writing for undergraduate political science students
  • A seminar on Francis Spufford's wonderful book, Red Plenty. (Made into a beautiful PDF by John Holbo)
  • In memory of Aaron Swartz

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