One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
Azra Isakovic
16 December 2020
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Arctic – The Arctic and World Order, | Johns Hopkins SAIS/Brookings Institution Press
Digital/Russia/US – Hackers have vaulted into the heart of America’s government, The Economist
Digital/EU – The Digital Services Act: ensuring a safe and accountable online environment, European Commission
Digital/EU – The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets, European Commission
Digital/EU – Putting digital services at the service of Europeans, Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton, Irish Times
US/Germany – Preserving America’s Military Posture in Germany, Bradley Bowman and Ben Hodges, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
US/UK – The US-UK trade talks that Joe Biden inherits, Anna Isaac, Politico
US/Eastern Mediterranean– American Interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, Eric Edelman and Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
EU/US/Turkey/Russia – Peeling Turkey Away from Russia’s Embrace: A Transatlantic Interest, Nathalie Tocci, Istituto Affari Internazionali
NATO/Russia – NATO-Russia Crisis Brief, Nuclear Crisis Group
US/Democracy – A Democracy Summit Is Not What the Doctor Ordered, James Goldgeier and Bruce W. Jentleson, Foreign Affairs
EU/Democracy – EU still lacks a ‘silver bullet’ for bringing autocrats to heel, Ben Hall, Financial Times
Bosnia and Herzegovina –Dayton at 25: Time for Effective and Functional Government in Bosnia, R. Bruce Hitchner, Balkan Insight
Germany Fares Poorly in Second Wave of Coronavirus Lukas Eberle et al, Spiegel
China Seems Ready for a Fight Over Taiwan James Holmes, 1945
China’s Nationalists See a World Turning Their Way Chris Buckley, New York Times
Maybe Brexit Isn’t So Bad After All Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
How the Brexit Fairy Tale Ends Gavin Esler, The National
Measuring Soft Power Margaret Seymour, FPRI
The Hidden Cost of Digital Consumption, by Halden Lin, Aishwarya Nirmal, Shobhit Hathi & Lilian Liang (Parametric Press 19/10)
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia’s Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit, by Andy Greenberg (Wired 19/10
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