No one can instill in you a sense of inferiority without your consent.
Bertolt Brecht

By Azra Isakovic

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Wednesday Briefing

Featured

Liberal Order – The Liberal Order Begins at Home, by Robin Niblett & Leslie Vinjamuri | Foreign Affairs

'U.S. allies are wary of the US’ staying power..Many fear that U.S. foreign relations will continue to be defined by dramatic swings from conditional multilateralism to assertive unilateralism'@londonvinjamuri @RobinNiblett @ForeignAffairs https://t.co/slz0aTnIpM

— Chatham House Americas (@CH_Americas) April 1, 2021

Books

Political Science –Nonstate Warfare Stephen Biddle | Princeton University Press
Review – The Origins of Western Divergence  Robert Henderson | City Journal
Political Science –Subtle Tools, Karen J. Greenberg | Princeton University Press

Wow, with @KarenGreenberg3’s new book (and others), the twentieth anniversary of September 11 is going to be interesting. https://t.co/EPqzAfaMJW

— Samuel Moyn 🔭 (@samuelmoyn) April 6, 2021

Must-Reads

Vaccine Diplomacy – The Surprise Success of Sputnik V  C. Esch, J. Glüsing & C. Hebel | Der Spiegel
US/Russia – U.S.-Russian Relations Will Only Get Worse, James Goldgeier | Foreign Affairs
EU/Global – Built to order: How Europe can rebuild multilateralism after covid-19, Anthony Dworkin | ECFR
Covid19 – A COVID Counterfactual for Europe  Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate
China – With Xinjiang Cotton, China Takes On the World  Kris Cheng & Holmes Chan | Lowy
Northern Ireland – Ignoring Northern Ireland’s Dangerous Drift  Andrew McQuillan | Spectator
Northern Ireland – Northern Ireland Clashes Show Brexit Isn’t Done Ailbhe Rea | New Statesman
French politics: Macron faces test of character as Le Pen’s popularity grows, Victor Mallet | FT
Corporation Tax – Global corporate tax deal edges closer after US backs minimum rate, Chris Giles, Guy Chazan and David Keohane | FT

Research & Analysis

Economy/Health – Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age, Monica de Bolle, Maurice Obstfeld and Adam S. Posen | PIIE
Health – Health Silk Road 2020:A Bridge To The Future Of Health For All By Henry Tillman, YE Yu, YANG Jian | Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) [PDF]
EU/5G –The impact of 5G on the European economy | Accenture
EU/Corruption – A wicked problem: How to cooperate with collusive states? Roderick Parkes and Mark McQuay | EUISS
China – China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications, Rush Doshi, Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson | Brookings

NEW REPORT: @RushDoshi, @edelabruyere, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson analyze China's growing influence in telecommunications and IT and evaluate China's domestic and external discourse in Beijing’s endeavor to become a “cyber great power."

Read: https://t.co/8QxwECR3HE

— Brookings China (@BrookingsChina) April 5, 2021

Podcasts