This is Democracy – Episode 90: Globalization: Will it Survive the Coronavirus?

Jeremi sits down with Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell to talk about the effects of COVID-19 on our global world and how it will potentially change our democracy.

Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Linked.”

Abraham Newman is Professor of Government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  He is the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization. Abraham Newman co-authored, most recently: Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (with Henry Farrell) and Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Finance and Power (with Elliot Posner.) Henry Farrell is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, and Editor in Chief of the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. He works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. He has written two books, The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation and Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security (with Abraham Newman.)