Ils pensaient que j’étais surréaliste, mais je ne l’ai jamais été. Je n’ai jamais peint de rêves, je n’ai peint que ma propre réalité. Frida Kahlo
By Azra Isakovic
Monday, March 15
Good morning
Welcome to Your Monday Briefing
Books
UK/Danubian Europe – Britain and Danubian Europe in the Era of World War II, 1933-1941, by Andras Becker | Palgrave Macmillan
Populism – Populism Michael Burleigh | Hurst Publishers
Diplomacy –Selling Weimar German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933, Elisabeth Piller | GHI Washington
Must-Reads
Economy – Joe Biden’s stimulus is a high-stakes gamble for America and the world | The Economist
Diplomatie – La diplomatie culturelle et la crise des 20 ans de l’Europe, par Benjamin G. Martin et Elisabeth Marie Piller | Contemporary European History
Philanthropie – Dans la nébuleuse de la fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, Agnès Stienne | Visions carto
Russia/Libya – Russia on the Eve of a Collapse in Libya Anton Mardasov & Kirill Semyonov | Riddle
Indo-Pacific – America’s Indo-Pacific Folly Van Jackson | Foreign Affairs
Africa – What’s Going On in Senegal? Christina Lu | Foreign Policy
Covid19 –How Many COVID Deaths Have Been Unnecessary? Graham Allison | National Interest
Finance & Economics –Chartbook Newsletter #16 | Adam Tooze
Research & Analysis
US/Russia – The Future of U.S.-Russian Arms Control | CSIS [PDF]
Macroeconomics – Low interest rates in Europe and the US: one trend, two stories, by Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi | Bruegel [PDF]
US/China – Securing the Subsea Network, by Jonathan E. Hillman | CSIS [PDF]
Neoliberalism – Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism, Quinn Slobodian | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core [PDF]
Podcasts
Diplomacy – Selling Weimar German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933, Dr. Elisabeth Piller | German Society of PA
Economy – Joe Biden’s stimulus is a high-stakes gamble for America and the world | The Economist
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