Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Feb 11Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/
Thank you for the link. A fresh & intelligent conversation between the interviewer and the two authors, and the framework developed by Goddard and Newman does help in making sense of what is happening. And us making sense of it certainly is urgently needed!
Have read the interview, will take time out to read the article!
As @henryfarrell and #AbrahamNewman describe so beautifully in their 2023 book *Underground Empire*, the American political establishment is keenly aware of how its chokepoints over global finance and manufacturing can be leveraged to advantage the US at the rest of the world's expense:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties
56/
XI. Underground Empire by @henryfarrell and #AbrahamNewman
Two political scientists tell the story of how global networks were built through accidents of history, mostly by American corporations and/or the American state. The web was built by accident, but the spider at its center was always the USA. At various junctures since the Cold War, American presidents, spies and military leaders have noticed this web and tugged it. A tariff here, a sanction there, then an embargo.
36/
At the end of @henryfarrell and #AbrahamNewman's new book *Underground Empire*, they cite the work of #JohnLewisGaddis, "preeminent historian of the #ColdWar," who dubbed that perilous period "The Long Peace":
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250840554/undergroundempire
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties
1/
But other political scientists sharply disagreed. Last year, @henryfarrell, #JeremyWallace and #AbrahamNewman published a thoroughgoing rebuttal to Harari in *#ForeignAffairs*:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/spirals-delusion-artificial-intelligence-decision-making
They argued that - like everyone who gets excited about AI, only to have their hopes dashed - dictators seeking to use AI to understand the public mood would run into serious #TrainingData bias problems.
4/
the roamer
Cory Doctorow
