Political Scientist Henry Farrell

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.

Henry Farrell
Born	(1970-06-30) June 30, 1970 (age 53) Ireland
Nationality	Irish-American
Academic background
Alma mater	Georgetown University (Ph.D.) University College Dublin (B.A. and M.A.)
Academic work
School or tradition	Political scientist
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University

Farrell is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.^[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. He published a piece in The Economist in 2023 on the "religious schism" seen among AI engineers, and another piece on the similarity of AI models to older forms of knowledge integration.

 

• The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany (2009) Cambridge University Press.
• Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle Over Freedom and Security (with Abraham L. Newman) (2019) Princeton University Press.
• Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, Henry Holt, 2023, 288 pp.

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