« A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what’s going on. » William S. Burroughs

By Azra Isakovic

Thursday April 1, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Featured

COVID-19/Vaccine –Here’s how to get billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world Chad P. Bown & Thomas J. Bollyky | Peterson Institute

#Covid19/#Vaccin/ Voici comment obtenir des milliards de doses de vaccin COVID-19 dans le monde, Chad P. Bown & Thomas J. Bollyky | Peterson Institute @PIIE https://t.co/v6vgXQqXRb

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 1, 2021

Books

Ayn Rand – I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand  David Sloan Wilson | Nautilus
Review –  Investing With Keynes  Philip Delves Broughton | The Wall Street Journal

“When statistics do not seem to make sense, I find it is generally wiser to prefer sense to statistics.” #JohnMaynardKeynes #quoteoftheday #EconTwitter

Philip Delves Broughton reviews “Investing With Keynes” by Justyn Walsh https://t.co/E9P9I1xjIk via @WSJ

— 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 (@Bill14wall) March 30, 2021

Must-Reads

France –Macron Returns France to Lockdown as Vaccinations Lag, by Norimitsu Onishi and Constant Méheut | The New York Time
France/Defense – The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war | The Economist
Germany/Health – ‘We are a laughing stock’: Covid-19 and Germany’s political malaise, Guy Chazan | Financial Times
Suez – On the Suez Canal and Chokepoints  George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
US/Army – U.S. Army Goes to School on Nagorno-Karabakh  Jack Detsch | Foreign Policy
India – India Has a Stake in Myanmar  Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Indian Express
Cyberworld Order – Russia and China Try to Rewrite the Cyberworld Order  David Ignatius | WaPo
Russia/Italy – Russian Spy Case Escalates in Italy  | RFERL
Pakistan/India – Another Tactical Thaw in Pakistan-India Relations  Aryaman Bhatnagar |  WPR
China/EU – China’s New Bogeyman: Europe  Stuart Lau | Politico EU
US – The U.S. Cannot Be Choosy About Its Allies  Janan Ganesh | Financial Times
US/MBS – A Wiser U.S. Check on MBS’s Power  F. Gregory Gause III | Foreign Affairs
EU/Trade – Europe and the Prospects for WTO Reform, Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett | CFR
US –Biden unveils $2tn infrastructure plan and big corporate tax rise, James Politi | Financial Times

28 per cent corporate income tax rate + global minimum tax rate at 21 per cent on a country-by-country basis: Biden’s plan is a game-changer, not only for the US but for global corporate taxation. Bad day for the tax havens.
https://t.co/aVS3FxofSN

— Jean Pisani-Ferry (@pisaniferry) March 31, 2021

Research & Analysis

Disinformation – Critical Disinformation Studies | unc_citap
Europe/Deterrence – Europe’s Evolving Deterrence Discourse, Amelia Morgan and Anna Peczeli, eds. | LLNL /King’s College/SAIC
EU – The power surplus, Ignacio Garcia Bercero and Kalypso Nicolaidis | CEPS
UK/Digital – Why The Government’s Integrated Defence Review Risks Sounding Like “Cyber-Rattling”, Ciaran Martin | Prospect/forum.eu

The 🇪🇺 needs to develop a coherent overall approach to the external dimension of its regulatory policies write @ignaciobercero & @KalypsoNicolaid

➡️READ NOWhttps://t.co/AhNDQaiS3j pic.twitter.com/NM8hVjV8XR

— CEPS ThinkTank (@CEPS_thinktank) March 31, 2021

Podcasts

Enjeux Internationaux – Le Sri Lanka, théâtre de la rivalité Inde/Chine, Julie Gacon et Raphaëlle Khan | France Culture

France/Defense – The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war | The Economist

Atlas Hugged – David Sloan Wilson talks about his new book | Simpol

My @NautilusMag article on http://www.AtlasHugged continues to get a lot of attention. Arguably the first science-informed novel of the Post-Individualist age. https://t.co/jC8l73Ab07. @nytdavidbrooks @paulkrugman @econnaturalist @primalpoly @mercatus @tylercowen @Noahpinion.

— David Sloan Wilson (@David_S_Wilson) March 27, 2021