History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte
By Azra Isakovic
Friday, March 12
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Books
Review Essay – A Tyranny Without Tyrants Patrick J. Deneen, American Affairs
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed by Andrew Bacevich | Metropolitan Books
Nonfiction – How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power, by Nigel Cliff | The New York Times
Nonfiction – In Search of a Kingdom – Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire By Laurence Bergreen | HarperCollins
Must-Reads
UK –The Green New Deal’s time has come – but where has Labour’s radicalism gone? Adam Tooze | The Guardian
Carbon dioxide –The Negative Part of Net Zero, Noah J. Gordon | Internationale Politik Quarterly
Quad/Indo-Pacific – How Biden Can Make the Quad Endure, Evan Feigenbaum, James Schwemlein | Carnegie Endowment
India/China – China’s Himalayan Salami Tactics Are Working Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
India/China – India and China Need More Than a Border Pullback Anubhav Gupta, WP Review
Quad/Indo-Pacific – Is the Quad for Real? We’ll Know More on Friday Salvatore Babones, Foreign Policy
Biden/Blob – On Shedding an Obsolete Past, Andrew Bacevich | TomDispatch
Quad/Indo-Pacific – The Future of the Quad Is Bright Jeff M. Smith, RealClearWorld
Balkans – Ethnic Engineering in the Balkans Aleksandar Brezar, Al Jazeera
Space – Avoiding the Folly of a U.S.-China Space Race Zhou Bo, SCMP
Taiwan – Supply Chains Critical to Taiwan’s Security James Lee, East Asia Forum
Data Protection – How Europe’s Intelligence Services Aim to Avoid the EU’s Highest Court | Lawfare
EU/Digital – Why Europe’s Digital Decade Matters by Margrethe Vestager, and Josep Borrell | Project Syndicate
Research & Analysis
AI/Data – Auditing employment algorithms for discrimination, Alex Engler | Brookings Institution
EU/Russia/Counterterrorism – Blurry Counterterrorism: A Chance for Russia, A Risk for Europe, Miriam Heiß | DGAP
EU-China –Towards a Fair and Reciprocal Partnership | EPP Group
Podcasts
Le Cours de l’histoire – Que nous réserve l’avenir ? Xavier Mauduit | France Culture
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