The War on Foreign Policy

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I see the fight being played out between people who value security and people who value privacy. And where are you on that spectrum? So I am well, it depends on the time of the day and I find myself 222 p.m. or whether the months of the year have been good to me in many ways. Sometimes I think that will be very good to see a big, powerful government beginning to pursue the wholesale reform of the international financial system. The other side of that is that uniplarity and the US willingness to use its power in order to crush all opposition has been used in a variety of problematic ways over the last few years.

The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell’s theory of weaponized interdependence. Whether it’s China’s influence over the NBA, the US ban of Huawei, or whether social media should be regulated on a global scale, Henry Farrell has played a key role articulating how global economic networks can enable state coercion.

Tyler and Henry discuss these issues and more, including what a big tech breakup would mean for security and privacy, why political economics suggests Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t work, what Italy might reveal about China’s future, his family connection to Joyce, his undying affection for My Bloody Valentine, why Philip K. Dick would have reveled in QAnon, why Twitter seems left-wing, and being a first generation academic blogger.

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Recorded October 7th, 2019 Other ways to connect

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