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Essay

Weaponized Interdependence – with Abraham Newman

June 20, 2019 International Security Weaponized Interdependence with Abraham Newman
In May 2018, the US Administration announced that it was pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, reimposing sanctions. Most notably, many penalties do ...
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Boston Review Symposium Lead Essay

“Democracy’s Dilemma” with responses from Riana Pfefferkorn, Joseph Nye, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Allison Berke, Jason Healey, Astra Taylor and danah boyd, and a reply to the responses by Henry Farrell and Bruce Schneier. with Bruce Schneier

May 15, 2019 Boston Review Symposium Lead Essay with Bruce Schneier
The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that is what U.S. policy makers, pundits, and scholars believed in the 2000s. The ...
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Boston Review

Democracy’s Dilemma – with Bruce Schneier

May 14, 2019 Boston Review Democracy Science and Technology
How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information? The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that ...
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Essay

By Punishing Iran, Trump is Weakening America – with Abraham Newman

April 24, 2019 Foreign Policy (online) with Abraham Newman
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complained about Republicans in Congress who were grandstanding for harsher sanctions on Iran. Now, he has joined ...
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Essay

America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure – with Abraham Newman

April 15, 2019 The National Interest with Abraham Newman
THREE DECADES ago, a German history professor listed 210 proposed explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire. The remarkable array included such fanciful causes ...
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(and Abraham Newman)

Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

April 5, 2019 (and Abraham Newman) Financial Times
Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed. Access the full article here.
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Essay

How Political Science Can Be Most Useful – with Jack Knight

March 10, 2019 The Chronicle of Higher Education with Jack Knight
Agatha Christie’s murder mystery The Mousetrap is the longest running play in history. Its first run began in 1952, and it hasn’t stopped since. Another ...
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DefusingDis.info

Defending Democratic Mechanisms and Institutions against Disinformation Attacks – with Bruce Schneier

January 28, 2019 DefusingDis.info with Bruce Schneier
To better understand influence attacks, we proposed an approach that models democracy itself as an information system and explains how democracies are vulnerable to certain ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

Privatization as State Transformation

December 11, 2018 Nomos 60
Privatization is an ambiguous term covering many loosely related phenomena. In this essay, I focus on one specific aspect of privatization-the privatization of governance. This ...
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Academic Article

Stability of Democracies: A Complex Systems Perspective – with Karoline Wiesner, Alvin Birdi, Tina Eliassi-Rad, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornet and Karim Thebault

November 27, 2018 European Journal of Physics 40
Karoline Wiesner, Alvin Birdi, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornet and Karim Thebault (2019), “Stability of Democracies: ...
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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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