Henry Farrell (political scientist)

Henry Farrell
Born (1970-06-30) June 30, 1970 (age 54)
Ireland
NationalityIrish-American
Academic background
Alma materGeorgetown University (Ph.D.)
University College Dublin (B.A. and M.A.)
Academic work
School or traditionPolitical scientist
InstitutionsJohns 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]

Work

Farrell is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.[6][1] He has written articles on blogging for Foreign Policy[2] and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[3] He has written for the Washington Post blog, Monkey Cage,[7] including as editor-in-chief from 2019-2022.[8] He published a piece in The Economist in 2023 on the "religious schism" seen among AI engineers,[9] and another piece on the similarity of AI models to older forms of knowledge integration.[10]

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)

More references

  1. ^ "Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  2. ^ "Panopticons and Chokepoints". www.wilsonquarterly.com. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  3. ^ "How the US is weaponizing the world economy". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  4. ^ "Why the EU will not remain the world's digital über-regulator". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  5. ^ Krugman, Paul (2023-12-06). "The American Way of Economic War". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 103, no. 1. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  6. ^ Simon, Scott (January 29, 2005). "When Web Rumors Run Amok". NPR.
  7. ^ Farrell, Henry (September 9, 2014). "Blog: Why Reddit sucks: some scientific evidence". Washington Post. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  8. ^ "Henry Farrell - The Washington Post". Henry Farrell. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  9. ^ Farrell, Henry (December 12, 2023). "AI's big rift is like a religious schism, says Henry Farrell". The Economist (By invitation). ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  10. ^ Farrell, Henry; Shalizi, Cosma (June 21, 2023). "Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster, say Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi". The Economist (By invitation). ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-12-22.