History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
By Azra Isakovic
Thursday, March 11 2021
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Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing
Books
Truth Will Prevail – Why I Have Been Condemned by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | LeftWord Books
Refugees – My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović | Catapult
Refugees – Forgetting Doesn’t Kill You, but It Sure Feels Like It, by Francine Prose | New York Times Books
Must-Reads
Democracy – Saving Democracy Is Not America’s Responsibility Janan Ganesh, Financial Times
Democracy – How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire A. Applebaum & P. Pomerantsev, Atlantic
Biden/Xi – High Stakes in the Biden-Xi Contest Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council
EU-China –EU-China investment accord fails to resolve subsidy disputes | Peterson Institute
Nord Stream 2 – How to Solve the Nord Stream 2 Dilemma Steven Pifer, Brookings
Cancel Culture – I Want the Freedom to Offend by Emina Melonic | Splice Today
Armenia – Will Armenia’s Political Turmoil Undo Its Democracy? Ido Vock, New Statesman
EU – The EU’s Risk-Averse Nature David Hutt, Internationale Politik Quarterly
China – The Threat of China’s Confucius Institutes R. Norman & J. Wilson, National Review
China/India – South Asia Deftly Navigates India-China Tensions Rohan Mukherjee, EA Forum
China/Diplomacy – The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy Peter Hessler, New Yorker
Economy – Supply chains and trade flows volatility in the face of global shocks | VoxEU/CEPR
Research & Analysis
EU – The European Union and the multilateral system | EP Research Service
EU/US/Trade – Beyond trade war in Washington: The United States and our less global future, Lauri Tähtinen | FIIA
Belarus/Baltic/Nordics – Baltic and Nordic Responses to the 2020 Post-Election Crisis in Belarus | LIIA EU – The Time for EU’s Common Foreign Policy is Now | GLOBSEC [PDF]
Podcasts
La Commune, 150 ans (3/4) :Clichés de la Commune par Xavier Mauduit | France Culture
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