Ils pensaient que j’étais surréaliste, mais je ne l’ai jamais été. Je n’ai jamais peint de rêves, je n’ai peint que ma propre réalité. Frida Kahlo

By Azra Isakovic

Monday, March 15

Good morning

Welcome to Your Monday Briefing

Books

UK/Danubian Europe – Britain and Danubian Europe in the Era of World War II, 1933-1941, by Andras Becker | Palgrave Macmillan
Populism – Populism Michael Burleigh | Hurst Publishers
Diplomacy –Selling Weimar German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933, Elisabeth Piller | GHI Washington

I'm happy to share that my book "Selling Weimar. German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933" is now really and officially out. Thanks to the @GHIWashington it is also available open access; free to download here: https://t.co/oaXK4YkA7k pic.twitter.com/Jf7ATfqEnk

— Elisabeth Piller (@elisabmpiller) January 27, 2021

Must-Reads

Economy – Joe Biden’s stimulus is a high-stakes gamble for America and the world  | The Economist
Diplomatie – La diplomatie culturelle et la crise des 20 ans de l’Europe, par Benjamin G. Martin et Elisabeth Marie Piller | Contemporary European History
Philanthropie  – Dans la nébuleuse de la fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, Agnès Stienne | Visions carto
Russia/Libya – Russia on the Eve of a Collapse in Libya  Anton Mardasov & Kirill Semyonov | Riddle
Indo-Pacific – America’s Indo-Pacific Folly  Van Jackson | Foreign Affairs
Africa – What’s Going On in Senegal?  Christina Lu | Foreign Policy
Covid19 –How Many COVID Deaths Have Been Unnecessary?  Graham Allison | National Interest
Finance & Economics –Chartbook Newsletter #16 | Adam Tooze

Wobbles in US Treasury market in recent weeks are nerve-wracking. Do they put in jeopardy the smooth financing of the Biden stimulus? Must we sacrifice limits on bank leverage? The debate right now turns on so-called SLR.
Chartbook Newsletter #16 digs inhttps://t.co/PHmeSQ3yKk pic.twitter.com/Ncl91yXDUR

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 14, 2021

Research & Analysis

US/Russia – The Future of U.S.-Russian Arms Control | CSIS  [PDF]
Macroeconomics –  Low interest rates in Europe and the US: one trend,  two stories, by Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi | Bruegel  [PDF]
US/China – Securing the Subsea Network, by Jonathan E. Hillman  | CSIS  [PDF]
Neoliberalism – Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism, Quinn Slobodian | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core [PDF]

#Néolibéralisme/ « Capitalisme parfait, humains imparfaits : race, migration et limites du mondialisme de Ludwig von Mises » par @zeithistoriker | Contemporary European History @ContEuroHistory via @CambridgeCore https://t.co/ztQ6wgE5s1
📥 [PDF] https://t.co/AEJnzJbVOu pic.twitter.com/dzI3fkCfr0

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 15, 2021

Podcasts

Diplomacy – Selling Weimar German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933, Dr. Elisabeth Piller | German Society of PA

Economy – Joe Biden’s stimulus is a high-stakes gamble for America and the world  | The Economist