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Azra_Files : Your Monday Briefing Nov. 30, 2020

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« The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open »

Gunter Grass

Here’s what you need to know today

#BidenTransition/ Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB ( Office of Management and Budget) | The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-hires-all-female-senior-communications-team/2020/11/29/5b60b58e-3277-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

#BidenTransition/ Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary’s 2016 Votes to Trump – How can Democrats and allied media outlets credibly oppose unhinged conspiracy theories and attacks on U.S. election legitimacy while empowering its worst purveyors? | Glenn Greenwald https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-appointee-neera-tanden-spread

#MohsenFakhrizadeh/ Overview: nuclear scientists as assassination targets, By William Tobey – Bulletin Atomic https://thebulletin.org/premium/2020-11/overview-nuclear-scientists-as-assassination-targets/

#EU🇪🇺/#China🇨🇳/ EU proposes fresh alliance with #UnitedStates🇺🇸 in face of China challenge | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/e8e5cf90-7448-459e-8b9f-6f34f03ab77a

#China🇨🇳/#BRI/#Laos🇱🇦/ A Border Town’s Second Gamble – The First Stop in Laos on the New Railway from China, Boten Prepares for New Connections, by Ore Huiying & Wan Man, ChinaFile https://shar.es/aoWy3r

#China🇨🇳/#Europe🇪🇺/ #17plus1/#5G/ China in Europe and Transatlantic Security, by Andrew Michta, ICDS https://bit.ly/36hJDrX
PDF 📥 https://icds.ee/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ICDS-EFPI-Brief_China-in-Europe-and-Transatlantic-Security_Andrew-A-Michta_November-2020.pdf

#UnitedStates🇺🇸/#Iran🇮🇷/#irannucleardeal/#JCPoA/ Brazen Killings Expose Iran’s Vulnerabilities as It Struggles to Respond, By David D. Kirkpatrick, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/middleeast/iran-assassinations-nuclear-israel.html

#UnitedStates🇺🇸/#Iran🇮🇷/#irannucleardeal/#JCPoA/ Machine guns and a hit squad: the killing of Iran’s nuclear mastermind | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/a2fade69-3b03-4d0f-9fd3-1641ae1fddb1

#UnitedStates🇺🇸/#Iran🇮🇷/#irannucleardeal/#JCPoA/ Assassination in Iran Could Limit Biden’s Options. Was That the Goal? By David E. Sanger | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/middleeast/israel-iran-nuclear-deal.html

Kushner heading to Saudi Arabia and Qatar amid tensions over Iranian scientist killing  | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/29/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-qatar-tensions-iranian-scientist-killing

#Libya🇱🇾/ Exploring Armed Groups in Libya: Perspectives on SSR in a Hybrid Environment | DCAF – Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance https://www.dcaf.ch/exploring-armed-groups-libya-perspectives-ssr-hybrid-environment PDF 📥 https://www.dcaf.ch/sites/default/files/publications/documents/ExploringArmedGroupsinLibya.pdf

#EU🇪🇺/#defense/#socialmedia/ Social media disinformation disrupts EU missions worldwide, by Brooks Tigner | Janes https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/social-media-disinformation-disrupts-eu-missions-worldwide

The Macron Doctrine, Barack Obama, Capitalisme, Left Wing Populism, The Biden Transition: Your Saturday Briefing

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Azra_Files : Nov. 28, 2020

Here’s what you need to know, by Azra Isakovic

#EU🇪🇺/ The #MacronDoctrine and the Geopolitical Future of the EU | @dgapev https://dgap.org/en/events/macron-doctrine-and-geopolitical-future-eu

#Russia🇷🇺/#UnitedStates🇺🇸/ Biden’s Approach to U.S. Allies and Adversaries Will Challenge Russia, by Dmitri Trenin | Carnegie Moscow Center https://carnegie.ru/commentary/83336

#Capitalism/ The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism – Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money. By Zoë Beery | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/style/trust-fund-activism-resouce-generation.html

#LeftWingPopulism/ Diego Maradona, Argentine football great, 1960-2020 | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/45d05dc6-243d-487f-a7f3-09367ed503b8

#NYT/ How Does Ben Smith Sleep at Night?  | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/160396/ben-smith-new-york-times-media-column-janet-malcolm

Books📚/ “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama review – an impressive but incomplete memoir Gary Younge | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/26/a-promised-land-by-barack-obama-review-an-impressive-but-incomplete-memoir

Books📚/ 10 books to read in December | Le Grand Continent https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2020/11/27/10-livres-decembre/

Azra_Files : Nov. 27, 2020 – Here’s what you need to know

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Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, The Biden Transition, Technology, Democracy, Press Freedom, Books📚 : Your Friday Briefing, By Azra Isakovic

#Books📚/ “Living in Troubled Times” by Thierry de Montbrial , Executive chairman and founder of IFRI_ | World Scientific https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/11147

#Books📚/ Education & Development in Colonial & Postcolonial Africa. Policies, Paradigms, & Entanglements, 1890s–1980s by Damiano Matasci, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Hugo Gonçalves Dores eds Palgrave Macmillan coll. « Global Histories of Education » #openaccess  http://sfhom.com/spip.php?article3673

#Books📚/ Repenser la « mission civilisatrice ». L’éducation dans le monde colonial et postcolonial au XXe siècle, par Damiano Matasci, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Hugo Gonçalves Dores eds aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes @pureditions coll. « Histoire » #Livres 📚 http://sfhom.com/spip.php?article3672

#Technology/#Democracy/ Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud, by Glenn Greenwald https://greenwald.substack.com/p/demanding-silicon-valley-suppress

#VIDÉO 🎥/ #Technology/#Democracy/ Interview with Edward Snowden (@Snowden) on Silicon Valley Censorship, Biden, and Lurking Press Freedom Dangers, by Glenn Greenwald https://greenwald.substack.com/p/video-interview-with-edward-snowden

#Europe🇪🇺/#France🇫🇷/#PressFreedom/ Video of Police Beating Black Man in Paris Fuels Debate on Filming Officers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/europe/Paris-police-beating-video.html

#Europe🇪🇺/#France🇫🇷/#PressFreedom/ Emmanuel Macron’s illiberal plan to protect the French police | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/17e7122b-c127-4996-a4ab-c399d05f242a?list=intlhomepage

#Nexit/ New Dutch ‘Nexit’ party threatens Rutte – Forum for Democracy is among the groups hoping to make a splash in regional vote, by Mehreen Khan | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/98f94164-2cca-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4

#Europe🇪🇺/#Bosnia&Herzegovina🇧🇦/#Dayton How to Free Bosnia From Dayton’s Paralyzing Grip  Majda Ruge, ECFR https://ecfr.eu/publication/how-europe-and-the-us-can-take-bosnia-beyond-dayton-25-years-later/

#VIDÉO 🎥/#Libya🇱🇾/ Moment German Commandos Intercept & Raid Turkish Ship Bound For Libya | @zerohedge https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-moment-german-commandos-intercept-raid-turkish-ship-bound-libya

#Chine🇨🇳/ Why the Quad Should Focus on a Strategy to Contain China  James Holmes, TNI

Azra_Files : Jeudi 26 novembre 2020

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#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#TheBidenTransition/#TransitionBiden/ Dis non, Joe – En ce qui concerne la #politique_étrangère, il est impossible de revenir au statu quo – Joe Biden devrait s’appuyer sur les meilleures idées de Barack Obama et dire non aux guerres inutiles et aux dépassements militaires, par Benjamin H. Friedman, Stephen Wertheim | Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/say-no-joe/

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#TheBidenTransition/#TransitionBiden/ #ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#TheBidenTransition/#TransitionBiden/ L’équipe de sécurité nationale de Biden offre un virage serré – Approche prudente d’Obama à l’égard des opérations étrangères pourrait être révisée, Par Annie Karni et David E. Sanger pour le New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/us/politics/biden-nominees-national-security.html

#Numérique/#UE🇪🇺/ L’Europe n’a pas de stratégie en matière de cyber-sanctions, Stefan Soesanto, Lawfare
http://www.lawfareblog.com/europe-has-no-strategy-cyber-sanctions

#Numérique/#France🇫🇷 /#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/  La France exige des paiements d’impôts numériques de la part des groupes technologiques américains, Aime Williams, Hannah Murphy et Victor Mallet, Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/2cfe3d07-7e69-4f57-b634-8b6002f967cb

#Chine🇨🇳/#Numérique – La route numérique de la soie en Chine: importance économique et politique, Damian Wnukowski, PISM https://pism.pl/publications/Chinas_Digital_Silk_Road_Economic_and_Political_Significance

#Technologie/#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/  Les conservateurs qui se plaignent de la censure –  Les Pro-Trump sur Internet n’arrêtent pas de parler de son exode des #BigTech. Mais très peu d’entre eux ont en fait abandonné leurs foyers de longue date sur les réseaux sociaux | The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/23/parler-conservatives-still-on-twitter/

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/  9 choses à savoir sur Anthony Blinken D. Herszenhorn et R. Momtaz, Politico EU
https://www.politico.eu/article/nine-things-to-think-about-antony-blinken/

#Russie🇷🇺/ Le pivot asiatique de la Russie se heurte à de nouveaux problèmes, Sergey Sukhankin, Jamestown
https://jamestown.org/program/russias-pivot-to-asia-encounters-new-difficulties/

#Chine🇨🇳/ La Chine fixe un bilan financier, Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures
https://bit.ly/3nXi9hh

Azra_Files 25/11/2020

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#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Europe🇪🇺/ Alors que Trump sort, les fractures en Europe s’élargissent à nouveau – Les responsables en France et en Allemagne se disputent déjà la vie après son départ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/europe/trump-macron-merkel-france-germany.html

#Europe🇪🇺/#Corruption/ La corruption pourrit la périphérie de l’Europe – Les problèmes du continent s’étendent aux démocraties en difficulté au-delà de la Hongrie et de la Pologne https://www.ft.com/content/78ba92ed-94ef-47ce-9157-658e068cd814

#France🇫🇷/ Sur le point de devenir moins libre – Au lendemain des récents attentats terroristes, le gouvernement français a introduit une nouvelle législation qui menace les libertés mêmes qu’il s’engage à défendre, par Mira Kamdar
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/france-about-become-less-free/617195/

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Europe🇪🇺/ Pourquoi l’Europe centrale et orientale sera importante pour l’administration Biden, Daniel Hegedüs, GMF https://shar.es/aoblKd

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Europe🇪🇺/#Bosnie🇧🇦/#Dayton/ Un nouvel accord pour la #BosnieHerzégovine🇧🇦, rapport et recommandations, groupe de travail sur les Balkans occidentaux Woodrow Wilson Center
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/fixing-dayton-new-deal-bosnia-and-herzegovina

#Technologie/#Numérique/#UnionEuropéenne🇪🇺 – L’empreinte numérique de l’#UE🇪🇺 tourne en rond, par @alanbeattie via @financialtimes https://www.ft.com/content/8e8ce49b-0ca2-4d6d-86e4-3c3a0c4a4397?shareType=nongift

#Technologie/#Numérique/#Chine🇨🇳 – Compétitivité chinoise dans l’économie numérique internationale, Caleb Foote et Robert D.Atkinson, | @ITIFdc http://itif.org/publications/2020/11/23/chinese-competitiveness-international-digital-economy
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#Technologie/#Démocratie/ Le pouvoir exercé par #BigTech est une menace pour la démocratie – Pour y faire face, il faudra briser le contrôle monopolistique des entreprises sur l’information politique, par @FukuyamaFrancis, @BarakRichman, et @ashishgoel
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-24/fukuyama-how-save-democracy-technology

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Chine🇨🇳/ Entreprises multinationales, compte courant et découplage États-Unis-Chine, par Stewart Paterson | Hinrich Foundation https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/wp/us-china/mnes-decoupling-from-china/

#Chine🇨🇳/#MerNoire – Un changement de mer?: Le rôle de la Chine dans la mer Noire, par Michael O’Hanlon, Ivan Safranchuk, Igor Denisov, Vakhtang Charaia, Mariam Lashkhi , Jean-Marc Blanchard, Michal Meidan, Altay Atlı via Middle East Institute https://www.mei.edu/publications/sea-change-chinas-role-black-sea
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