Henry Farrell

Count the Costs of Cutting Technological Ties with China

The result of all this is that policy discourse about the United States, China,
and technology has careened from one pathology to another: The cheery
globalism of a decade ago has given way to today’s diffuse paranoia. Now
the national security conversation is almost exclusively focused on the
impossible task of severing the ties of technological interdependence,
with the only question being how much further to go.

In Jessica Chen Weiss, ed. Getting China Right at Home, Johns Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China and the Future of Global Affairs.

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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 counter its blind spots. Tierney and Maliniak’s TRIP data point to a strong elective affinity between, on the one hand, rationalist/liberal 10 ontological assumptions and quantitative methodologies, and on the other, constructivist ...
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Interview

The Silicon Valley canon and malformed publics: Podcast with Max Read and John Ganz

February 27, 2025 John Ganz Max Read
Bringing this all together, the technologies through which we see the public shape how we understand it, making it more likely that we end up in the one situation rather than the other. As you have surely guessed by now, I believe Twitter/X, Facebook, and other social media services are just such technologies for shaping publics. ...
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