“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
Otto Von Bismarck

By Azra Isakovic

Monday, March 29

Good morning

Welcome to Your Monday Briefing

Featured

Misinformation – How to Stop Misinformation Before It Gets Shared, by Renee DiResta | Wired

New article in Wired today, written with (AND illustrated by!) @tobiasrose. The convo on misinformation is often focused on content itself (old problem), rather than on virality & reach (newer dynamic). It's reactive, focused on moderating after the fact. https://t.co/7wSxqv8zR6

— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) March 26, 2021

Books

Ideas – Conservatism: A View from Sweden  | University Bookman
Biography – Making of a Cold War President  Jason K. Duncan | University Bookman
Review – “The World Turned Upside Down”, by Branko Milanović | Brave New Europe

With the increasing inability of Western governments to govern and the reversion to culture wars, this piece has an eerie relevance

Branko Milanović @BrankoMilan

“The World Turned Upside Down” – a critical reviewhttps://t.co/xHk1lQqFVv#politics #China #Government pic.twitter.com/zkr5UkvVml

— Brave New Europe (@BRAVENEWEUROPE1) March 28, 2021

Must-Reads

Big Tech – The mess at Medium, Casey Newton | The Verge
Autocracy – Why the International Order Is Tilting to Autocracy  A. Cooley & D. Nexon | For. Aff.
UK – Is the United Kingdom Still a Nation?  Henry Hill | Spectator
Suez – In Suez Canal, a Warning About Excessive Globalization  Peter Goodman | NYT
Suez – With Suez Canal Blocked, Shippers Begin End Run Around a Trade Artery Peter S. Goodman & Stanley Reed | New York Times  
China – « La Chine devient plus que jamais une puissance clivante » Alice Ekman  | Le Monde
China/Iran – China, With $400 Billion Iran Deal, Could Deepen Influence in Mideast by Farnaz Fassihi et Steven Lee Myers | New York Times
US –How the United States’ legal community became global oligarchs’ most useful enablers, Alexander Cooley & Casey Michel | Foreign Policy
Pandémie – Avec la pandémie, l’Occident perd du terrain face aux régimes autoritaires chinois et russe, Cyrille Bret, Florent Parmentier | Slate.fr

Géo-biopolitique de la pandémie: la désoccidentalisation du monde (BRET-PARMENTIER Telos) https://t.co/sYWJKL8uaH

— Bret Cyrille (@cy_bret) March 29, 2021

Research & Analysis

History –Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party | Cambridge University Press
History –Testing Marx. Income Inequality, Concentration, and Socialism in Late 19th Century Germany | Center for Open Science @OSFramework
EU/Economy – The Corona Debt Conundrum in the Eurozone, Paweł Tokarski and Alexander Wiedmann  |  SWP

Due to the growing public debt, the #Eurozone's ability to act financially continues to depend on the #ECB's expansionary monetary policy. @Pawel_Tokarski @SWP_Europe and @Wiede_10 look at alternatives to this model. #COVID19 https://t.co/pYTpVm3lnw

— SWP Berlin (@SWPBerlin) March 26, 2021

Podcasts

Revue de presse internationale – Quelles leçons tirer des embouteillages au canal de Suez ?  Camille Magnard | France Culture

Libya – Can Libya’s New Unity Government Transcend the Divides? | SWP