Of privacy and power : the transatlantic struggle over freedom and security /

Of privacy and power : the transatlantic struggle over freedom and security /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Farrell, Henry, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Privacy, Right of. Data protection.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11803753

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Other authors / contributors:	Newman, Abraham, 1973- author.
ISBN:	9780691183640 0691183643
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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, involving Passenger Name Record data, the SWIFT financial messaging controversy, and Edward Snowden's revelations, 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Freedom and security in the new interdependence
1. Politics in an age of interdependence
2. Domestic security and privacy in the transatlantic space
3. Competing Atlantic alliance and the fight over airline passenger data sharing
4. Cross-national layering and the regulation of terrorist financial tracking
5. Insulation and the transformation of commercial privacy disputes
Conclusion: Information, power, and world politics.