Of Privacy and Power

"""Winner of the ICOMM Best Book Award, International Communication Section of the International Studies Association"" ""One of Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2019"" ""A Daniel Drezner Best Political Economy Book of the Year"" ""A Just Security Holiday Reading Book of the Year"" ""Talk about having a year. Most political economy scholars would be happy to have one standout publication in a year. Farrell and Newman produced two distinct pieces of scholarship, both of which deal with the less anticipated ramifications of deepening economic interdependence. Of Privacy and Power explains how the United States was able to get the European Union to adopt some (but not all) of its post-9/11 security measures on issues ranging from airline passenger data to finance. Interdependence empowered newer, nontraditional actors, creating new cross-national bargains.""---Daniel Drezner, Washington Post ""An important contribution to political science, expanding on their concept of 'weaponized interdependence,' namely how the U.S. (and sometimes other political actors) uses access to international networks, such as SWIFT, to push other nations around.""---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution ""American debates about privacy and security tend to be framed in terms of purely domestic interests: This book details how those conflicts are critically shaped by international relations, and how the US and EU facets of that fight can’t be understood in isolation.""---Julian Sanchez, Just Security"