It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
By Azra Isakovic
Jan. 11, 2021
Good morning
Welcome to Your Monday Briefing
Books
Books – The Habsburg Empire — Pieter M. Judson | Harvard University Press
Books/Review – How America Chose Supremacy, by William Anthony Hay | Law & Liberty
Books/Review – « Tomorrow, the World”, review by Paul Kennedy | The Wall Street Journal
Must-Reads
Russia – Russia’s Military in the 2020s Pavel Luzin, Riddle
Missiles – Austin Must Overhaul Aging Missile Defense System Michael Evans, Times
Nato – Time for NATO Members to Renew Their Vows J. Foggo III & V. Zakem, Proceedings
China/Japan – China-Japan Fish Fight Could Turn Ugly Neil Newman, SCMP
Global – The World After the Coronavirus – Foreign Policy, Various authors, Foreign Policy
US – Profound Rebuilding Needed to Shore Up U.S. Democracy, Rachel Kleinfeld, Carnegie Endowment
US –It Happened in America, Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs
US – The Capitol Siege Is the Wake-up Call America Shouldn’t Have Needed, Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs
US/Democracy – America Can’t Promote Democracy Abroad. It Can’t Even Protect It at Home, Emma Ashford, Foreign Policy
US/Sanctions – New Sanctions in the US Defence Budget, Bartosz Bieliszczuk, Mateusz Piotrowski, Polish Institute of International Relations PISM
US/Defense – Warfare’s worldwide web, The Economist
US/Europe –Transatlantic relations: Putting it back together again, The Economist
US/China/Energy –Why the United States should compete with China on global clean energy finance, Chuyu Liu and Johannes Urpelainen
EU/NATO – Time for Big Picture Thinking, Barbara Kunz, Internationale Politik Quarterly
Germany/China – Riding High: Deutschland AG in China, The Economist
Newsletter
Newsletter – Chartbook Newsletter #10 by Adam Tooze
Research & Analysis
Russia/Baltics – Russia’s Strategic Interests and Actions in the Baltic Region, Heinrich Brauß and András Rácz, DGAP
US/China/Sanctions – Raising a Caution Flag on US Financial Sanctions against China, Jeffrey J. Schott, PIIE
Arctic – Climate Change and the Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistics, Governance, and Wider Geo-economic, Societal and Environmental Impacts, Mia M. Bennett, Scott R. Stephenson, Kang Yang, Michael T. Bravo, and Bert De Jonghe, in Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate editor
