Underground Empire by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman

Farrell and Newman's book is like an MRI or CT scan of recent world history,
giving us a new and startling image of the global body politic, as clear as an
X-ray. Cognitive mapping takes on a new aspect with their analysis, as they
shift from the technological to the historical, showing both how this new
nervous system of world power came to be, and how it could be put to better
use than it is now. Given the intertwined complexities of our very dangerous
polycrisis, we need their insights."
- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
"The sharpest and most striking analysis I've seen in years of the state the
world's in, cunningly disguised as a user-friendly business book."
- Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill

Henry Farrellis the SNF Agora Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the 2019
winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology, Editor-inChief of The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post, and co-founder of the
popular academic blog, Crooked Timber . A member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, Farrell has written for publications such as The New York Times,
the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly,
The Boston Review, Aeon, New Scientist, and The Nation . Abraham L.
Newman is a professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government
Department at Georgetown University. Known for his research on the politics
generated by globalization, he serves as a frequent commentator on
international affairs, appearing on news programs ranging from Al Jazeera to
Deutsche Welle and NPR. His work has been published in leading outlets like
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nature, Science, Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, and Politico

Henry Holt & Co
On Sale: Sep 12/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 288 pages
1 map
9781250840554 • $38.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Political Science / International Relations / General