Henry Farrell is scary smart. He, with Abraham Newman, came up with the concept of “weaponized interdependence,” or the way the U.S. has used its control of critical nodes in the global economy to extend its influence and power.
In 2019, Farrell and Newman wrote an article for International Security introducing weaponized interdependence to the world. It’s a pathbreaking work that forces a reassessment of foundational assumptions about international economic relations.
“The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence,” a book published by the Brookings Institution in 2021, extended their journal-length analysis with case studies and a subsequent volume, “Underground Empire” (2023), made their thinking accessible to nonpointy-headed types.
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