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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]

Born (1970-06-30) June 30, 1970 (age 56)
Ireland
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Henry Farrell
Born (1970-06-30) June 30, 1970 (age 56)
Ireland
Academic background
Alma materGeorgetown University (Ph.D.)
University College Dublin (B.A. and M.A.)
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Political scientist
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
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A major contribution has been in his work with Abraham Newman on weaponized interdependence.[2][3][4][5]

Early life and education

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]

Farrell taking part in a BloggingHeads.tv conversation.

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.

References

  1. ^ Tom Regan (October 31, 2005). "Berlusconi: 'I tried to get Bush to not invade Iraq'". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on March 14, 2006.
  2. ^ Robert Collier (October 30, 2005). "Opinion: Seeds of leak scandal sown in Italian intelligence agency". San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. ^ "Opinion: Merlot Democrats, Google Republicans". Washington Times. December 27, 2005.
  4. ^ K. Daniel Glover (January 2006). "The Rise of Blogs". Beltway Blogroll. National Journal. Archived from the original on May 5, 2006.
  5. ^ Daniel W. Drezner; Henry Farrell (November 2004). "Web of Influence". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on November 12, 2004.
  6. ^ Farrell, Henry (November 2005). "The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas". Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on July 10, 2009. (reprinted in The Australian, December 2005)

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