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Forget Me Not: What the EU’s New Internet Privacy Ruling Means for the United States – with Abraham Newman

The modern innovators of Internet human rights are not U.S. leaders or bold Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. They are stodgy bureaucrats, politicians, and lawyers in Brussels, Berlin, and Strasbourg. As the National Security Agency (NSA) and American firms have relied on sucking up massive amounts of data to observe citizens and create and serve consumers, the European Union has fought to establish privacy rights. Over the last ten years, however, the EU initiative seemed to be on the ropes as the United States pressed Europeans to water down their privacy protections in a number of key sectors. But now, the

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Forget Me Not: What the EU’s New Internet Privacy Ruling Means for the United States,”Foreign Affairs (2014, website only).

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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 and Rousseau, to modern social-choice theory, concerns the relationship between decision rules and collective choice. It is emphatically clear that the former have important consequences for the latter. Individuals’ preferences ...
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Useful for What and Useful to Whom? IR and Its Public – with Jack Knight

May 13, 2021 International Studies Review with Jack Knight
Henry Farrell and Jack Knight (2021), “Useful for What and Useful to Whom? IR and Its Public,” International Studies Review, 23,4:1933-1958. The contributors to this forum all draw significantly from pragmatist philosophy and social theory for making sense of international politics. Collectively, we affirm the value of pragmatist work beyond metatheory and methodology, both politically ...
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