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Henry Farrell

Henry Farrell

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs

About

Henry Farrell is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs at SAIS, 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology, and Editor in Chief of the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. Previously, he served as a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the internet, and international and comparative political economy. He is author of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security (with Abraham Newman, 2019) and The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation (2009).

Expertise


In the News

The Weaponized World Economy

Foreign Affairs, August 19, 2025

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

Foreign Affairs, April 3, 2025

Rethink the Global Economy

BBC Rethink Podcast, February 20, 2025

Henry Farrell On Trump II

The Second Captains World Service Podcast, February 6, 2025

Large Language Models Will Upend Human Rituals

The Economist, September 4, 2024

AI’s Big Rift is Like a Religious Schism

The Economist, December 12, 2023