Georgetown University,
BMW Center for European Studies,
Author of Under Ground Empire

Abraham L. Newman is the John Powers Chair in International Business Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization and together with Henry Farrell he coined the term weaponized interdependence, which explains how the networks of the global economy (information, finance, and production) are used by states to target their enemies. Together with Stacie Goddard, he developed the concept of neo-royalism to understand a world order driven not by national interests but by those of personalist leaders and their insider elite clique. He is the co-author most recently of Underground Empire: How American Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023), which received the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Bronze Medal and was named one of Foreign Affairs’ best Books of the Year, and co-author of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), which was the winner of the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the 2020 International Studies Association ICOMM Best Book Award. He is the winner of the 2022-2023 Berlin Prize and has published over forty peer-reviewed articles in journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, Nature, Science, and World Politics. He is a regular commentator on international affairs with pieces appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.