Henry Farrell (political scientist)
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Henry Farrell | |
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| Born | June 30, 1970 Ireland |
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| Alma mater | Georgetown University (Ph.D.) University College Dublin (B.A. and M.A.) |
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| School or tradition | Political scientist |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Henry Farrell is an Irish-born political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from Georgetown University. His research interests include trust and co-operation; e-commerce; the European Union; and institutional theory. He is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[1]
A major contribution has been in his work with Abraham Newman on weaponized interdependence.[2][3][4][5]
Henry Farrell grew up in Ireland; first in Dublin, then in a small town in Tipperary.[6]
Career
Farrell left Ireland in 1993; since then, he has lived in Brussels, Washington DC, Florence, Bonn and Toronto.[6]
Work
Farrell is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.[7] He has written articles on blogging for Foreign Policy and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has written for the Washington Post blog, Monkey Cage,[8] including as editor-in-chief from 2019 to 2022.[9] He published an essay in The Economist in 2023 on the "religious schism" seen among AI engineers,[10] and another essay on the similarity of AI models to older forms of knowledge integration.[11]
Books
- The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany. Cambridge University Press. 2009.
- Henry Farrell; Abraham Newman (2019). Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle Over Freedom and Security. Princeton University Press.
- Henry Farrell; Abraham Newman (2023). Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. Henry Holt and Company.
