Henry Farrell

Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU – with Abraham Newman

Political leaders in Europe have not been shy in expressing their anger about recent revelations about the United States spying on the EU. Germany’s justice minister has said that the United States’ expansive spying programs — the United States is alleged to have spied not only on the electronic communications of European citizens, but on the EU embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Brussels headquarters of the European Council, where European states make the key decisions that guide European politics — remind of “the methods of our foes during the Cold War.” France’s justice minister has described

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU,” Foreign Affairs (2013, website only).

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“Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna,” Local Production Systems in Europe: Reconstruction and Innovation – with Ann-Louise Holten – ed. Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow

February 26, 2004 ed. Colin Crouch Patrick Le Galès Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow Oxford University Press 2004 with Ann-Louise Holten
The debate about the industrial districts of central and north-eastern Italy has evolved over the last 25 years. Initially, many saw them as evidence that small firms could prosper contrary to the arguments of the proponents of big industry. Debate focussed on whether small firm industrial districts had a genuine independent existence, or were the ...
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This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power

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Economic security officials worked across administrations, gradually developing grand ambitions of a global order founded on financial sanctions, export controls and development of crucial technologies. Each new administration built up the economic weapons it inherited from the last and encouraged its successors to keep building the structures of American economic power. We are about to ...
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