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Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

November 15, 2018 Lawfare with Bruce Schneier

Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the ...

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Three Moral Economies of Data – with Nils Gilman

November 7, 2018 The American Interest (online) with Nils Gilman

In October 24, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, gave an epochal speech to a conference of European data officials. Many outside the technology industry ...

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Hypocrisy is a Useful Tool in Foreign Affairs. Trump is Too Crude to Play the Game with Martha Finnemore

November 5, 2018 Washington Post with Martha Finnemore

Hypocrisy has a bad connotation, but it offers a useful middle course in the world of geopolitics; it once lubricated the engine of U.S. power. ...

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The Wrong Way to Punish Iran with Abraham Newman

November 1, 2018 The New York Times with Abraham Newman

During the war on terror, the United States quietly turned the world financial system into a hidden empire. The American government used the power of ...

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The New Economy’s Old Business Model is Dead

July 13, 2018 Foreign Policy

The titans of the new economy are different from their predecessors in one very important way: They aren’t job creators — at least not on ...

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“The “Intellectual Dark Web,” Explained: What Jordan Peterson Has in Common with the Alt-Right”

May 10, 2018 Vox

Bari Weiss, an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, created a stir this week with a long article on a group that ...

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Mark Zuckerberg Runs a Nation-State, and He’s The King with Margaret Levi and Tim O’Reilly

April 10, 2018 Vox.com with Margaret Levi and Tim O'Reilly

“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. He elaborated on this ...

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Northern Ireland’s Brexit Problem

March 29, 2018 Foreign Affairs (online)

Next month, the Irish and British people should be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The agreement serves as the cornerstone of ...

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Our Hackable Political Future The New York Times with Rick Perlstein

February 4, 2018 with Rick Perlstein

Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand. ...

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American Democracy is an Easy Target

January 17, 2018 Foreign Policy (online)

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame. Access the full article here.

Henry Farrell

Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

Three Moral Economies of Data – with Nils Gilman

Hypocrisy is a Useful Tool in Foreign Affairs. Trump is Too Crude to Play the Game with Martha Finnemore

The Wrong Way to Punish Iran with Abraham Newman

The New Economy’s Old Business Model is Dead

“The “Intellectual Dark Web,” Explained: What Jordan Peterson Has in Common with the Alt-Right”

Mark Zuckerberg Runs a Nation-State, and He’s The King with Margaret Levi and Tim O’Reilly

Northern Ireland’s Brexit Problem

Our Hackable Political Future The New York Times with Rick Perlstein

American Democracy is an Easy Target

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