September Briefing #1

5 septembre 20215 septembre 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

I’m not a synonym – I’m a proper noun.
Clarice Lispector.

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

Your Monday Briefing

12 avril 202112 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“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

Your Friday Briefing

9 avril 20219 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“Politics is not an exact science.” Otto Von Bismarck

By Azra Isakovic

Friday, April 9, 2021

Good Day

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Featured

Post-neoliberalism – The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008, Will Davies | Theory, Culture & Society
Post-neoliberalism –Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit Harrison Smith, Roger Burrows | Theory, Culture & Society

My article, The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government, part of a forthcoming special issue I'm co-editing on 'post-neoliberalism?', is online https://t.co/JfotzNbSYn
— Will Davies (@davies_will) April 8, 2021

Books

Xinjiang – Eurasian Crossroads – A History of Xinjiang, James A. Millward | Hurst Publishers
Middle East – The Middle East Crisis Factory – Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance, Ahmed Gatnash, Iyad El-Baghdadi | Hurst Publishers

OUT NOW 💫

Has autocracy won out in the Middle East?

Two children of the region, @iyad_elbaghdadi & @gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of broken promises.

Get 25% off ‘The Middle East Crisis Factory’ w/code ‘MECRISIS25' ➡️ https://t.co/ewDxnFJzkJ pic.twitter.com/7Sfd6FKTRv
— Hurst Publishers (@HurstPublishers) April 8, 2021

Must-Reads

EU/US/Economy – Europe has a lot to learn from Joe Biden’s audacity, Philip Stephens | Financial Times
US🇺🇸/China🇨🇳/Taïwan🇹🇼 – Biden Backs Taiwan, but Some Call for a Clearer Warning to China, Michael Crowley | The New York Times
China – China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Goes Global Maya Wang | Foreign Affairs
China/Myanmar – Will Beijing Intervene in Myanmar? Abby Seiff | ChinaFile
China/Taiwan – Taiwan and the Use of Force: China’s Conundrum Frank Ching | Japan Times
Myanmar – Myanmar’s Military Chooses Total Violence Francis Wade | New Statesman
EU – Friends like these: How foreign policy could derail an alliance of Europe’s populist right, Pawel Zerka | ECFR
Russia/Ukraine – Kremlin saber-rattling in Ukraine: How the West should react, Steven Pifer | Brookings
Covid19/Vaccine – Germany starting talks to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, by Jillian Deutsch | POLITICO Europe
Covid19/Vaccine – Britain’s vaccine success was supposed to lead to freedom. What happened? Kate Andrews | The Spectator

#Covid19/#Vaccin/ Le succès du vaccin britannique était censé conduire à la liberté. Qu'est-il arrivé? Kate Andrews @KateAndrs | The Spectator @spectator https://t.co/2s4rV68gUR
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 9, 2021

Research & Analysis

Post-neoliberalism –TCS Special Issue: ‘Post-neoliberalism?’ | Theory, Culture & Society
Hardware Innovation – Labs Over Fabs: RISC-V’s Promise by Jordan Schneider | ChinaTalk
US/Security/Technology –Linking National Security and Innovation: Part 1, James Andrew Lewis | CSIS
Ukraine – Ukraine’s half-hearted reforms: What needs to change in the West’s approach? Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau | FIIA

Podcasts

UE🇪🇺/Turquie🇹🇷/Podcast🎧 – Entre démocratie et transactionnalisme | SWP Berlin

Your Thursday Briefing

8 avril 20218 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
Scott Cook

By Azra Isakovic

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Featured

Corporation tax – US offers new plan in global corporate tax talks, James Politi, Aime Williams and Chris Giles | FT
Economy/ecology – Europe’s path to decarbonisation, by Adam Tooze | International Politics & Society

Is a just transition for Europe realistic? @adam_tooze sets out the challenge to achieve net-zero by 2050.https://t.co/9ydGgA751o
— International Politics & Society (@ips_journal) April 5, 2021

Books

The Care –The Care Crisis – What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling | Verso Books
Political Science – Of Privacy and Power, Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman | Princeton University Press
À propos de : Socialisme et sociologie, de Bruno Karsenti, Cyril Lemieux | EHESS

Socialisme et sociologie de Lemieux et Karsenti devrait vous parler! Ils y assument des affinités électives entre disciplines de sciences sociales et courants idéologiques modernes (libéralisme, conservatisme et socialisme). Un CR pour @laviedesidees: https://t.co/acUxeFqR19
— Johan Giry (@GiryJohan) April 5, 2021

Must-Reads

EU/Energy – From coal to low carbon, Irina Kustova, Christian Egenhofer, Jorge Núñez Ferrer and Julian Popov | CEPS
Covid19 – Pandemic as Metaphor | Zeynep Tufekci
China – China as a Third World Country George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
Germany – Merkel’s Magic Faded Long Ago Roger Boyes | Times of London
China – What if China Launches a Surprise Attack on U.S. Military? Daniel Davis | 1945
China/Iran – China’s Iran Deal Is Just a Start Erielle Davidson & Ari Cicurel | National Interest
US/Ukraine – Biden Administration Support for Ukraine Is Strong but Is There a Partner in Kyiv? Jonathan D. Katz and Olena Prokopenko | GMF
US/EU/Economy – Transatlantic economic relations under the Biden administration, Peter Rashish | European Policy Centre
Economy – Janet Yellen calls for a global minimum tax on companies. Could it happen? | The Economist
US/Security – Overlooking the Policy Connections: Fragility, Democracy, and Geopolitical Competition, Frances Z. Brown | Just Security
French politics– Emmanuel Macron’s dangerous election gamble, Bruno Amable | International Politics & Society

Emmanuel Macron's dangerous election gamble – Future of social democracy https://t.co/kLPyCRnari via @ips_journal
— Bruno Amable (@bruno_amable) April 6, 2021

Research & Analysis

Human Rights –The State of the World’s Human Rights, Amnesty International Annual Report 2020/2021 | Amnesty International
NATO – Origins, Progress, and Unfinished Business: NATO’s Protection of Civilians Policy, Katie Dock, Victoria K. Holt and Marla Keenan | Stimson
EU/Turkey/Greece – Revisiting and going beyond the EU-Turkey migration agreement of 2016: an opportunity for Greece to overcome being just “Europe’s aspis”, Kemal Kirişci | Brookings
US/India/Australia/Japan/Russia/China –The Return of the Quad: Will Russia and China Form Their Own Bloc? Heather A. Conley, Michael J. Green, Cyrus Newlin and Nicholas Szechenyi | CSIS

Podcasts

Talking Politics – Adam Curtis | Acast

Your Thursday Briefing

1 avril 20212 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

« 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

Your Wednesday Briefing

24 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. Scott Cook

By Azra Isakovic

Wednesday, March 24

Good morning

Welcome to Your Wednesday Briefing

Featured

Bernie Sanders –An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders, Ezra Kleinwith | New York Times Opinion
Analog/Digital –Why Analog Is Better than Digital II , by Francis Fukuyama | American Purpose

First we lost vinyl, then we lost film: https://t.co/AdWNjexFKt
— Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) March 23, 2021

Books

Enlightenment – The Enlightenment – The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790, Ritchie Robertson | Harper Collins
Review –“The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790”, Ritchie Robertson | Voltaire Foundation
About : Unsustainable Inequalities. Social Justice and the Environment, by Matthew Soener | Books & Ideas

The two most urgent problems facing humanity are economic inequality and environmental destruction. Lucas Chancel argues these two are deeply intertwined. Solutions to one must necessarily involve the other.https://t.co/IrjQ9yX2Nk
— Books & Ideas (@booksandideas) March 1, 2021

Must-Reads

Pandemic –Pandemic Theater, The Anniversary Edition | Zeynep
US/EU – The US and the EU: Time for a New “Transatlantic Moment”? Claudia Schmucker and Stormy-Annika Mildner | DGAP
US/Russia – Why Russia Is the Problem From Hell Robert Kaplan | National Interest
Russia/China – What Does China’s Latest 5-Year Plan Mean for Russia? Vita Spivak | Carn. Mos.
NATO –Secretary Blinken’s Moderated Conversation with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg | United States Department of State
NATO – Enlarging NATO’s Toolbox to Counter Hybrid Threats, Michael Rühle and Clare Roberts | NATO
Russia/Ukraine – Russia and Ukraine Are Not About to Come to Blows Ekaterina Zolotova | GPF
China/BRI – China’s Belt and Road: Implications for the U.S. J. Hillman & D. Sacks | CFR
India – India Romances the West C. Raja Mohan | Foreign Policy
UK – Where Do Boris Johnson’s Nuclear Ambitions Lead? Gavin Esler | The National
Biden Transition – Biden Wants No Part of the Culture War the G.O.P. Loves, by Thomas Edsall | New York Times Opinion

Research & Analysis

UK –Integrated Review of Security 2021 | Commons Library
UK –Global Britain in a Competitive Age: the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy | GOV.UK
NATO –NATO in in the Era of Unpeace: Defending Against Known Unknowns, Dominik P. Jankowski and Tomasz Stępniewski, eds. | Institute of Central Europe IEŚ

#RoyaumeUni🇬🇧: Un rapport complet (disons peut être une feuille de route) sur la stratégie internationale du @GOVUK dans les années à venir. Pour les passionnés de #géopolitique et de #défense, c'est à lire consciencieusement. https://t.co/r3NYIKx1Uu
— Ronan Dumas-Labbé (@RonanPaoli) March 24, 2021

Podcasts

EU/Russia – Europe–Russia Relations Today, with Kadri Liik and Dmitri Trenin | Sound Cloud

. @KadriLiik & @DmitriTrenin discuss the current state of Europe-Russia relations & how the #US should approach #Russia during the #Biden presidency. @CNASdc https://t.co/Zl4XlAqm4V @ECFRWiderEurope
— ECFR (@ecfr) March 22, 2021

Your Tuesday Briefing

23 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education. – John T. Chambers

By Azra Isakovic

Tuesday, March 23

Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing

Featured

Essays – Geopolitics of a pandemic, by Helen Thompson | Engelsberg Ideas
Decarbonisation – Realism & Net-Zero: The EU Case Adam Tooze | Chartbook Newsletter #17

Realism about the net zero path for EU to 2050 also means thinking hard about the impact on MENA countries that rely heavily on fossil fuel exports to EU.
Chartbook Newsletter #17https://t.co/C2lIxkqeBx pic.twitter.com/WRHeJ6x2jk
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 23, 2021

Books

About: Unsustainable Inequalities, by Adam Tooze | Dissent Magazine
Review – A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time, by Dwight Garner | New York Times Books
Clan/Power/UAE – Reinventing the Sheikhdom, by Matthew Hedges | Hurst Publishers
Study – Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said, By Timothy Brennan | Farrar, Straus & Giroux

#Livres📚/ Une étude d'Edward Said, l'un des hommes les plus intéressants de son temps, par @DwightGarner | @nytimesbooks https://t.co/eOFtPuqAU4 pic.twitter.com/aOeLjMuTLq
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 23, 2021

Must-Reads

Decarbonisation – Europe’s decarbonisation challenge, by Adam Tooze | Social Europe
EU/China – China’s sanctions over EU officials and entities are justified | Global Times
EU/China – EU-China deal spells trouble for Macron at home, by Giorgio Leali | POLITICO Europe
US/France/Sahel – How France and the US can work to stabilise the Sahel | ECFR
UK – Britain’s global pipe dream | ECFR
Economy – The American Rescue Plan as Economic Theory, J. W. Mason | Brave New Europe
China/Thailand – Plan to establish joint MRO facility, by Jon Grevatt | Janes
Digital – Google chante le requiem pour les cookies, mais le grand chœur du pistage résonnera encore | Framasoft
Biden Administration – The Fury of a Superpower in Decline Graham Fuller | Responsible Statecraft

Research & Analysis

Arms Transfers – Trends in international arms transfers, 2020 | SIPRI
US/Europe/China – The China Plan: A Transatlantic Blueprint, Hans Binnendijk and Sarah Kirchberger | Atlantic Council
US/Turkey/Security – A Dual Framework for the Turkey-U.S. Security Relationship, Şaban Kardaş and Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, | German Marshall Fund [PDF]

Podcasts

Climate –The Tragic Choices of Climate Change | Talking Politics | Acast

Decarbonisation –La neutralité carbone, c’est quoi | Ausha

Your Monday Briefing

22 mars 202122 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“Politics is not an exact science.” Otto Von Bismarck

By Azra Isakovic

Monday, March 22

Good morning

Welcome to Your Monday Briefing

Books

Recension – La blouse ne fait pas le savant, par Sophie Houdart | La Vie des idées
Review – A French History of Transhumanism, by Stanislas Deprez | Books & Ideas
World of Cyberweaponry – Weaponizing the Web, Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books

La blouse ne fait pas le savant: À propos de : Stéphane Foucart, Stéphane Horel et Sylvain Laurens, Les gardiens de la raison. Enquête sur la désinformation scientifique, La Découverte. La défense de la science et de la raison est de plus en plus… https://t.co/MLTZUOjRFS
— La Vie des idées (@laviedesidees) March 22, 2021

Featured

Covid19 – Guerre et Paix, par Giorgio Agamben | Quodlibet edizioni

Guerre et Paix – Il est possible que la guerre contre le virus finisse, comme toute guerre, par devenir incontrôlable, par Giorgio Agamben | @quodlibet_ https://t.co/t45GhynSzh pic.twitter.com/u1Fn9rfTJN
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 22, 2021

Must-Reads

Ideas – Biden Chooses Prosperity Over Vengeance, Adam Serwer | The Atlantic
Japan/U.S. – Defense chiefs affirm cooperation over Taiwan emergency | Kyodo News
Big Tech – Democrats plan to bombard Big Tech | Axios
US/Russia – Без эмоций и иллюзий, Dmitri Trenin | Карнеги – Россия
Digital Currencies – Central banks’ uneasy embrace of digital currencies | Peterson Institute
South China Sea dispute – Huge Chinese ‘fishing fleet’ alarms Philippines | BBC News
Turkey – Erdogan reverts to type with bank governor’s sacking, Ayla Jean Yackley | Financial Times
US – Biden’s global, muscular liberalism | The Washington Post
UK – The disruptive rise of English nationalism | The Economist

Today’s English nationalism is a very different beast from the classic variety that George Orwell celebrated in “England, Your England” in 1941 https://t.co/1GBR2K0Zp3
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 22, 2021

Research & Analysis

US – U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021 Mark F. Cancian | CSIS
US/China – Trade War Tariffs: An Up-to-Date Chart | Peterson Institute [PDF]

CSIS expert Mark Cancian takes a deep look at each of the military services, the new Space Force, special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2021 budget. https://t.co/82mw2XkSzl
— CSIS (@CSIS) March 21, 2021

Podcasts

UE – Vers un “protectionnisme vaccinal” ? par Julie Gacon | France Culture

"Face aux problèmes de production du vaccin, les pays européens cherchent à importer les productions du fabricant d'AstraZeneca basé en Inde. Or, ce fabriquant est censé fournir la COVAX pour les pays en développement" Nathalie Ernoult @InstitutIRIS https://t.co/X5peAhUwev
— Julie Gacon (@juliegacon) March 22, 2021

Your Friday Briefing

19 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

We should establish a chair for the teaching of reading between the lines.
Leon Bloy

By Azra Isakovic

Friday, March 19

Good morning

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Books

Health – The Next Shift : The Fall o f Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, Gabriel Winant | Harvard University Press
Philosophy – In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, by Katrina Forrester | Princeton University Press

The paperback of my book, In the Shadow of Justice, exists! Out now in the US, later this month in the UK https://t.co/q3ykew3bWA pic.twitter.com/Qbh3o7jYYh
— Katrina Forrester (@katforrester) March 18, 2021

Must-Reads

Health – The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City, Gabriel Winant | Dissent Magazine
Health/EU – Has the EU Lost Its Mind? Peter Franklin | UnHerd
Nuclear Risk – An existential discussion: What is the probability of nuclear war? By Martin E. Hellman, Vinton G. Cerf | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Vaccination –The Elephant In the Room: Herd Immunity via Tragedy | Zeynep Tufekci
US/Libya – The Libya Allergy, Colum Lynch | Foreign Policy
Mali conflict – ‘It’s not about jihad or Islam, but justice’ Patricia Huon | The Guardian
Europe – Is Denmark creating an inverted-Apartheid? Peter Franklin | UnHerd
US/Strategy – Humility in American Grand Strategy Mathew Burrows & Robert Manning | WOTR
US/Africa – Understanding the New U.S. Terrorism Designations in Africa | Crisis Group
Vaccine – Vaccine Suspense: Why Some Countries Are So Cautious P. Treble | Maclean’s
Germany – Merkel’s CDU Mired in Scandal, Incompetence Melanie Amann et al | Der Spiegel

Mali: A report from the ground. https://t.co/r3tADX8QBx
— Ulrich Speck (@ulrichspeck) March 17, 2021

Research & Analysis

Germany/US/China – Germany Between a Rock and a Hard Place in China-US Competition, Markus Jaeger | DGAP
US/EU/Technology – What’s Ahead for a Cooperative Regulatory Agenda on Artificial Intelligence? Meredith Broadbent | CSIS
US/Extremism – Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021 | Office of the Director of National Intelligence
EU/Counterterrorism – The Next Steps for EU Counterterrorism Policy, Raphael Bossong | SWP

Podcasts

Commune de Paris – Les damnés de la Commune, Raphaël Meyssan | ARTE
Histoire – Debout les damnés de la terre, destins de communards, par Xavier Mauduit | France Culture

🍒🍒🍒 #Commune
Dans Le Cours de l'histoire sur @franceculture : Debout les damnés de la terre, destins de communards !

Avec Raphaël Meyssan @ARTEfr @DelcourtBD Jean-Louis Robert @MaitronD @SorbonneParis1 Michel Cordillot @Univ_Paris https://t.co/dcVmIBpvOo
— Xavier Mauduit (@XavierMauduit) March 19, 2021

Commune de Paris – Dernière révolution avant la République (4/4), par Perrine Kervran | France Culture

Commune de Paris – Les damnés de la Commune, Raphaël Meyssan | ARTE

📻 A 9h sur @franceculture dans Le Cours de l’#Histoire, @XavierMauduit reçoit @RaphaelMeyssan, réalisateur du doc "Les Damnés de la Commune", adapté de son roman graphique @DelcourtBD. #CommunedeParis.
Déjà sur https://t.co/H2Ijv8g0eq, jusqu'au 21.05
Sur @ARTEfr le 23.03 pic.twitter.com/JswNJanHY1
— ARTE pro (@ARTEpro) March 19, 2021

Your Thursday Briefing

18 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” Otto Von Bismarck

By Azra Isakovic

Thursday, March 18

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Books

Recension – « L’héritage des L u mières » par Blaise Bachofen | La Vie des idées
Essays – Paul Valéry and the Mechanisms of Modern Tyranny, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody | The Hedgehog Review
Review –‘Talking to Strangers’ of Paul Auster’s by Zachary Houle

Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ? Kant posait la question en temps réel. Plus de deux siècle plus tard, ce compte-rendu par @BachofenBlaise du livre D'Antoine LItti, montre qu'elle se pose toujours encore un peu… – La Vie des idées https://t.co/b4M9aFf5nV via @laviedesidees
— Michel DELATTRE (@delattre_md) March 3, 2021

Must-Reads

Health/Security – Pathogens Have the World’s Attention: The United States Should Lead a New Push Against Bioweapons, Nathan Levine and Chris Li | Foreign Affairs
Post-pandemic recovery – Sequencing the Post-COVID Recovery | Robert Skidelsky
China/Taiwan – Will Taiwan’s Dongsha Islands Be the Next Crimea? by Shahn Savino | World Politics Review
China – China’s Strategic Standpoint, by George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
US/Russia – Another Reason for Biden to Rethink Putin Strategy F. Kempe, Atlantic Council
EU/Digital/Finance – The European Union, Cybersecurity, and the Financial Sector, Philipp S. Krüger and Jan-Philipp Brauchle | Carnegie
Ukraine/Russia – Merge and Rule: What’s In S t ore for the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics, Konstantin Skorkin | Carnegie Moscow Center
Deterrence – A Mom’s Guide to Coercion and Deterrence Emma Ashford & Erica Borghard, AC
Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s Economic Future Ho-fung Hung et al, ChinaFile
Germany – Merkel Destroyed Her Own Party Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
UK – UK’s Vision Is Confident, Success Is Distant Richard Whitman, Chatham House
UK – Strong Navy Is Critical to Global Britain Jeremy Hutton & James Rogers, CapX

Why do economists keep reinventing the wrong wheel? Here's my latest @ProSyn column:https://t.co/ZmHcEITTFS
— Robert Skidelsky (@RSkidelsky) March 16, 2021

Research & Analysis

Digital/Democracy – Democracies Under Threat, Heidi Beirich and Wendy Via | GPAHE [PDF]
Energy – Oil 2021 Analysis and forecast to 2026 | IEA International Energy Agency
US – Foreign Threats to the 2020 US National Elections, | National Intelligence Council

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/ Menaces étrangères aux élections nationales américaines de 2020 | @ODNIgovh https://t.co/i7DxYLu2Mj
[PDF] https://t.co/sDqHKEqq5g pic.twitter.com/0CO715oRZy
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 18, 2021

Podcasts

Enjeux internationaux – Que cherchent les Etats-Unis dans « l’Indo-Pacifique » ? par Julie Gacon et Pierre Grosser | France Culture

"La #Chine a l'impression que le terme Indo-Pacifique est antichinois. Mais le Japon, l'Australie, l'Inde &les EU réunis au sein du #Quad n'ont pas employé le mot "Chine" dans leur communiqué,ils ne veulent pas donner l'idée d'encerclement" @PierreGrosser https://t.co/l390TMwyPy
— Julie Gacon (@juliegacon) March 18, 2021

Why The UK’s Post-Coronavirus Economic Recovery Will Not Be As Quick As Expected | Lord Skidelsky

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