A writer with “a boldly democratic vision”
–Journal of Economic Geography
Simon Reid-Henry is an award-winning scholar of the political present, a policy analyst and seasoned public speaker, and the author of four books, translated into seven languages. Born and educated in the UK, he gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and studied fine arts in Montpellier, France. A geographer by training, he draws on the tools of history, law and the social sciences to inform the intellectual narratives that define his work.
“Reid-Henry has mapped the terrain of our current political landscape with frightening accuracy”
- Times Higher
Over the past decade Simon has addressed topics ranging from innovation to international affairs to inequality and democracy and the prospects for peace in a time of multilateral crises. To each he brings a signature approach to explaining how ideas, political-economy, and the politics of institutional change intersect. He has also contributed widely to policy and public debates. His research has taken him from archives in London and Washington to the streets of Athens. He has interviewed former KGB chiefs in Moscow, and ageing intellectuals in Paris, HIV activists in Delhi and far right extremists in Stockholm. Their stories join the many others he explores through his writings on, and engagements in, the condition of politics today.
“Brilliantly, Reid-Henry calls for the salvation of democracy from the choices of its leaders”
–Samuel Moyn (Yale)
-Advance praise for Empire of Democracy-
EMPIRE OF DEMOCRACY is out in paperback now. A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year 2019
“[A] colossal history of the last half-century” (Sunday Times)
“I implore you to get off Twitter right away and buy this magnificent book. It may be the most valuable political education and history lesson you receive.” (Irish Independent Review)
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