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By Azra Isakovic

Sunday, September 5

Welcome to Your September Briefing #1

Featured

Chartbook on Shutdown #2: Writing in medias res, by Adam Tooze

Le nouveau visage du pouvoir, par Lorenzo Castellani | GEG

Pandémie a changé pour toujours la nature du pouvoir. Trois hypothèses extrêmes se dessinent : un scénario bureaucratique et dirigiste, un scénario « populiste » ou bien une transformation en profondeur des structures de pouvoir, @LorenzoCast89 | @GEG_org https://t.co/CDGMBmjuYl pic.twitter.com/L5wjdm1bkY

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) September 5, 2021

Books

Review – Shutdown: How Covid shook the world’s economy by Adam Tooze | The TLS
9/11 – The books of the last two decades show how America failed, Carlos Lozada | WaPo
Puissances mondialisées, Bertrand Badie | Éditions Odile Jacob
The New Apartheid – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh,  NB Publishers
Adventure Capitalism , Raymond B Craib | PM Press
9/11 – The Terror of War, Samuel Moyn | The Nation

Are we Rome? When it rains it pours: out in @thenation is my 9/11 anniversary essay. Come for reviews of terrific new @attackerman and @KarenGreenberg3 books. Stay for a chronology of the war and meditation on @dirkmoses's "Roman narrative" applied to it. https://t.co/bmEeDuSfj8

— Samuel Moyn 🔭 (@samuelmoyn) September 4, 2021

Must-Reads

9/11 – How we paid for the War on Terror, Adam Tooze
La menace de la gauche illibérale , Lorenzo Castellani | TEMPI
Inter pacem et bellum nihil medium, Céline Jouin | GEG
America Is Giving the World a Disturbing New Kind of War, Samuel Moyn | New York Times
Demain, la guerre de tous contre tous? Raffaele Alberto Ventura  | GEG
Video – Bruegel panel with Jean Pisani-Ferry, Sabine Weyand and Hélène Rey, Adam Tooze

China – How Much Does Beijing Control the Ethnic Makeup of Tibet? By Andrew M. Fischer | ChinaFile
China – The Power of the Party , Macabé Keliher | Boston Review

Research & Analysis

World Social Protection Report 2020  | ILO

Social protection is a human right that ensures access to health care and income security for all. Yet, more than half of the global population lack access to it. Check out the new ILO report✅: https://t.co/WbsBUqvBrZ #SDGs pic.twitter.com/khKrglMtXD

— International Labour Organization (@ilo) September 1, 2021

The Internet and the Pandemic | Pew Research Center
Towards a New Paradigm in Open Strategic Autonomy? Eric Van den Abeele | ETUI
A year like no other, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti | Brookings Institution
Promoting Peace and Stability in the Maritime Order Amid China’s Rise, Rachel Esplin Odell | Quincy
The Future of the International System | CSIS

Podcasts

Tooze and Klein on Chinese Growth Miracles, Hyperinflation, and Napoleonic Authoritarians, by Jordan Schneider | China Talk