“Absolute power demoralizes.”  Lord Acton

By Azra Isakovic

Monday, April 12, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Monday Briefing

Featured

Big Tech – Meet the Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google, Sarah Brown | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rencontrez le professeur qui a averti le monde à propos de #Gafam – Avec Facebook sous surveillance (#CambridgeAnalytica), certaines personnes s'accrochent à chaque mot de Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep), par @Brown_e_Points | @chronicle https://t.co/BQJyIeLkxQ

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 12, 2021

Books

Social Psychology – The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills Jesse Singal | Amazon
Nationalism – 100 Best Nationalism Books of All Time |  BookAuthority
Review – Are We Living in an Age of Strongmen? David A. Bell | The Nation

A small thread on historical comparisons. I didn't get at this sharply enough in this piece, but on reflection, what bothers me about so many attempts to offer comparisons between the present period and the period that saw the rise of fascism… /1https://t.co/uYF6ztKMRb

— David A. Bell (@DavidAvromBell) April 5, 2021

Must-Reads

EU – Brussels faces battle on new pan-EU revenue sources, Sam Fleming and Jim Brunsden | Financial Times
Europe – Les Capitales | EURACTIV France @EURACTIV_FR
Turquie/Italie – La Turquie suspend des contrats italiens à la suite de commentaires de Mario Draghi | EURACTIV France
Iran – Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage By Ronen Bergman, Rick Gladstone and Farnaz Fassihi | The New York Times 
US/Iran/JCPOA – Hawks preview strategy to oppose Biden’s ‘woke’ Iran policy, Matthew Petti | Responsible Statecraft
Social Psychology –The False Promise of Quick-Fix, Jesse Singal | The Wall Street Journal
Essay – Philip, Prince of Nowhere Ed West | UnHerd
US – Crisis of Command Risa Brooks, Jim Golby et Heidi Urben | Foreign Affairs
Pandemic – The Gaslighting of Science by Zeynep Tufekci | Insight
UK Security Review – A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review, Jack Watling  | RUSI
US/Iran/JCPOA – For true JCPOA re-entry, Biden must tear down this sanctions wall, Tyler Cullis | Responsible Statecraft
Technology –Europe in the Geopolitics of Technology, Alice Pannier | Ifri

In this brief, I review recent and ongoing developments in EU's tech policy. 👇🏼
Amidst growing competition and changing global governance, the EU must now better articulate with its foreign policy with its internal efforts to regulate critical technologies. https://t.co/PnUTLCR9ki

— Alice Pannier (@AlicePannier) April 9, 2021

Research & Analysis

Japan/Africa – Japan’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa: Between Strategic Priorities and Local Realities, Céline Pajon | Ifri
EU/Defence – Europe’s Missile Defence and Italy: Capabilities and Cooperation, Alessandro Marrone, Karolina Muti | IAI
UK Security Review – Defence in a competitive age | GOV.UK
Iraq – 18 Years of Terror and Destruction, by Hannah Mulhern and Razan al-Shammari | GICJ
Russia/China/Arctic – Partners, Competitors, or a Little of Both?  Jim Townsend and Andrea Kendall-Taylor | CNAS

#Russie🇷🇺/#Chine🇨🇳/#Arctique/ La Russie et la Chine dans l'Arctique – Partenaires, concurrents ou un peu des deux? Jim Townsend and Andrea Kendall-Taylor | CNAS @CNASdc https://t.co/R0T9iJBFgy
[PDF] 📥 https://t.co/15ptIUhk9T pic.twitter.com/unFugZAxlT

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 12, 2021

Podcasts

Political Economy – The future of capitalism, Branko Milanovic  | AEI Economics

Strongmen – Mussolini to Present | YouTube