Your Thursday Briefing

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. – Warren G. Harding

By Azra Isakovic

Jan. 14, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Books

Books – La société de vigilance. Auto-surveillance, délation et haines sécuritaires, par Vanessa Codaccioni | Éditions Textuel
Books – Introduction à Antonio Gramsci by George HOARE, Nathan SPERBER | Éditions La Découverte
Books – French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War, by Alice Pannier, Olivier Schmitt | Routledge Books
Books – Rivals in Arms: The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Alice Pannier | McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal

Must-Reads

US – Impeachable Speech, Katherine Shaw, Emory Law Journal
US – Institutional Integrity: Learning the Right Lessons from the Capitol Siege, Suzanne Spaulding and Devi Nair, CSIS
US – ‘We Tried to Warn You’, Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic
US/China/Technology – What the Cold War can teach Washington about Chinese tech tensions, Brendan Thomas-Noone, Brookings
Lithuania – Vilnius at 30 – Nothing Must Be Forgotten, Paul Goble
Estonia – Estonia’s PM resigns as corruption scandal hits ruling coalition, Richard Milne, Financial Times
Baltics/Russia – The Sorry State of Baltic-Russian Relations, Sergei Utkin, Carnegie Moscow
Germany – A Small Window of Opportunity, Stefanie Babst, Internationale Politik Quarterly
Technology/Digital – Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History, Ben Thompson, Stratechery
Technology – The Global AI Index, Tortoise
Technology/US – Summary of AI Provisions from the National Defense Authorization Act 2021, Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Europe – Will Europe Part Ways with Populism in 2021? Shane Markowitz, World Politics Review

Research & Analysis

US/Health/Global – COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing U.S. global partnership, George Ingram, Brookings
Data/Tech – Good Intentions, Bad Inventions – The Four Myths of Healthy Tech, by Amanda Lenhart & Kellie Owens | Data & Society 📥 PDF
Arctic –The U.S.-Canada Northwest Passage Disagreement: Why Agreeing to Disagree Is More Important Than Ever, Suzanne Lalonde, in Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate edito

Podcasts

Idées – Sommes-nous entrés dans une société de vigilance ? par Vanessa Codaccioni et Olivia Gesbert | France Culture

Your Tuesday Briefing

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. – Thomas Jefferson

By Azra Isakovic

Jan. 12, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing

Books

Must-Reads

EU/China – The EU’s Double Bind Mark Leonard, Internationale Politik Quarterly
US – The Ingredients of a Coup Attempt Fiona Hill, Politico
US – The American Abyss, Timothy Snyder, New York Times
US – Present at the Destruction, Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs
US – The US Must Now Stand Up for Democracy at Home and Abroad, Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
US – The United States Needs a Democracy Summit at Home, James Goldgeier and Bruce W. Jentleson, Foreign Affairs
US – American Soft Power Will Survive Donald Trump, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., National Interest
Europe – Europe is not immune from America’s political madness, Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
US/Western Balkans – How Biden can make a big difference in the Western Balkans, Engjellushe Morina and Vessela Tcherneva, European Council on Foreign Relations
Europe/China/Investment – Europe’s China Gambit, Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate

Research & Analysis

UK/Foreign Policy – Global Britain, global broker: A blueprint for the UK’s future international role, Robin Niblett, Chatham House
Germany/France/Defense – Future Combat Air System: Too Big to Fail, Dominic Vogel, SWP
Arctic –Freedom of the Seas in the Arctic Region, J. Ashley Roach, in Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate editor

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense ~ Susan Sontag

By Azra Isakovic
Jan. 8, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to your Friday briefing

Books

Books – Underground Asia – Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, by Tim Harper | Harvard University Press
Book Review – Deplorable, yourself, by Isaac William Martin | Books & Ideas
Book Review: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg | LSE USAPP blog

Must-Reads

Capitol Hill – The Peril the U.S. Faces International Crisis Group
Capitol Hill – Mike Davis, Riot on the Hill New Left Review
Capitol Hill – The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media by Sheera Frenkel | New York Times
Capitol Hill – Amid a transfer of power, Trump supporters break into Capitol – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Capitol Hill – Trump Told Crowd ‘You Will Never Take Back Our Country With Weakness’, by Maggie Haberman | New York Times
Russia – Russia’s Northern Fleet Upgraded Roger McDermott, Jamestown
EU – With UK Gone, Smaller Nations Fight EU Integration William Nattrass, CapX
Biden – What’s Next for Foreign Aid Under Biden? Kristen Cordell, Council on Foreign Relations
Israel/Iran – Is This the Year Israel and Iran Go to War? Seth Frantzman, 1945
France – France a Post-Imperial Power Seeking a Role Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Russia – Russia’s Northern Fleet Upgraded to military District Status, Roger McDermott, The Jamestown
EU/Russia – The EU in Action: Russia, Sarah Pagung, Internationale Politik Quarterly
EU/Middle East/North Africa –The EU in Action: The Middle East and North Africa, Florence Gaub, Internationale Politik Quarterly
EU/Turkey – The EU in Action: Turkey, Günter Seufert, Internationale Politik Quarterly

Research & Analysis

US/China/Russia – The Biden Transition and U.S. Competition with China and Russia: The Crisis-Driven Need to Change U.S. Strategy, Anthony H. Cordesman with the assistance of Grace Hwang, CSIS
Arctic/Nuclear – Strategic Stability and Competition in the Arctic, Rebecca Hersman, Eric Brewer, and Maxwell Simon, CSIS
China/Central and Eastern Europe – Huawei in Central and Eastern Europe: Trends and Forecast, Ivana Karásková, ed., Association for International Affairs Prague
Arctic – Climate Change and the Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistics, Governance, and Wider Geo-economic, Societal and Environmental Impacts, Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate editor

Podcasts