Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. He has previously been a professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany.
He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. His first book, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation, was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. His second (with Abraham Newman) Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press, and has been awarded the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the ISA-ICOMM Best Book Award. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman), published by Henry Holt (US) and Penguin (UK), and translated into Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Korean. In addition he has authored or co-authored 44 academic articles, as well as an edited volume, multiple book chapters and numerous non-academic publications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The topic of his talk will be: "The Weaponized World Economy: The New Age of Economic Coercion."
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's work on weaponized interdependence, and award-winning book Underground Empire, described how the world was quietly transformed over the last two decades. Beneath the surface of globalization, lay a hidden realm of economic coercion, in which the United States used its power over the US dollar, information networks and high tech production to discipline allies and attack adversaries. Now that Donald Trump has been elected for a second term, the United States is using these powers in a much less restrained way than ever before, but China is now trying to turn the table on America, through its control of critical minerals. What is likely to happen as the global economy is weaponized by great powers struggling to control other countries?
