Of Privacy and Power, Abraham L. Newman
Of Privacy and Power, Abraham L. Newman
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Of Privacy and Power
The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security

Author: Abraham L. Newman, Henry Farrell

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/02/2019


Synopsis

We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship.

The transatlantic struggle over freedom and security has usually been depicted as a clash between a peace-loving European Union and a belligerent United States. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman demonstrate how this misses the point. The real dispute was between two transnational coalitions—one favoring security, the other liberty—whose struggles have reshaped the politics of surveillance, e-commerce, and privacy rights. Looking at three large security debates in the period since 9/11, the authors examine how the powers of border-spanning coalitions have waxed and waned. Globalization has enabled new strategies of action, which security agencies, interior ministries, privacy NGOs, bureaucrats, and other actors exploit as circumstances dictate.

About Abraham L. Newman

Abraham L. Newman is professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His books include Voluntary Disruptions and Protectors of Privacy. Newman lives in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Murilo

Preface was very important in outlining and summarizing pretty much everything that the remaining of the book will cover. Chapter 1 lays the theoretical framework behind the authors’ new theory of international relations. They claim that although the idea has been presented before in the IR literatur......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

Best thing: It is short. Good to read about SWIFT, PNR and Safe Harbor. Next time: spend more energy on the subject matter and MUCH less time on this supposedly new theory of understanding power in international politics, which is - for a sensible normal adult like myself - banal and almost sweet in......more

Goodreads review by Maria

Interesting......more

Goodreads review by Steve

This book was a Best of the Best for the month of July, 2019, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet. You can find me at [URL not allowed], on my Stevo's Novel Ideas Amazon Influencer page ([URL not allowed]) or search for me on Google for many mo......more