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Azra Isakovic

Par Azra Isakovic

Dec. 22, 2020

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Books/Review – Orthodoxy of the Elites, by Jackson Lears | The New York Review of Books

So good: @tjlears on @anneapplebaum https://t.co/N6ILwJv0uQ
— Samuel Moyn 🔭 (@samuelmoyn) December 21, 2020

EU/China – Merkel pushes the EU-China deal – but at what price? by Silke Wettach | WirtschaftsWoche

China and Taiwan: What to Expect in 2021 Ying-Yu Lin, The Diplomat

Why India’s Farmers Won‘t Stop Protesting S. Gupta & S. Ganguly, Foreign Policy

Enough With Johnson’s Reckless Optimism Clare Foges, Times of London

Corruption Cuts Both Ways in Russia’s Surveillance State L. Bershidsky, BB

John Le Carré’s London of Exiles Is Alive and Well David Patrikarakos, Spectator

Why Putin Feels Vindicated by the Pandemic Kadri Liik, ECFR

Have been trying to understand Russia's experience with covid – so here some end-of-year reading for youhttps://t.co/FfJ9Gm2Ve1
— Kadri Liik (@KadriLiik) December 18, 2020

Protection Without Protectionism Shannon O’Neil, Foreign Affairs

How 2020 Shaped U.S.-China Relations Elizabeth Economy et al, CFR

Brexit and the Brussels Effect Paul De Grauwe, Project Syndicate

Has U.S. Found Sweet Spot With S-400 Sanctions? Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council

Russia/US – An ‘Act of War?’ Avoiding a Dangerous Crisis in Cyberspace, by Dmitri Trenin | Carnegie Russia

An 'Act of War’? Russia and the US are facing dangerous crises in #cyberspace. Guardrails should be extended to cover that dimension of their confrontation. My take: https://t.co/OW9OcM03BM через @CarnegieRu
— Dmitri Trenin (@DmitriTrenin) December 21, 2020

China’s Message Control Jessica Batke & Mareike Ohlberg, ChinaFile

How China Exposed CIA Operatives in Africa, Europe Zach Dorfman, Foreign Policy

Either U.S. Leads on Crypto, or China Will Bill Zeiser, RealClearPolicy

The Subversion of History Education in Scotland Jill Stephenson, Spectator

Did the Arab Uprisings Really Fail? Frederick Deknatel, World Politics Review

Macron Has the Same Problem as Louis XVI Lionel Laurent, Japan Times

After Escape: The New Climate Power Politics, by Adam Tooze | Journal e-flux #114 – December 2020

Carl Schmitt has served @BrunoLatourAIME as a way of framing politics since the Parliament of Things, particularly prominently in Facing Gaia.
We started debating the implications when Bruno visited Yale in 2013.
Here a belated response from my side: https://t.co/wuIXVupMXR pic.twitter.com/7ybEb4qfH6
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) December 17, 2020

Le nom de Gaïa. À propos d’un malentendu moderne, par Déborah Bucchi | Revue Germinal

Un précieux article par Déborah Bucchi sur le concept politique de Gaïa https://t.co/uWarwrmgZZ dans la @RevueGerminal, justement sous-titré "A propos d'un malentendu moderne".
— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) December 19, 2020

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” ― John le Carré

Azra Isakovic

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FT/Books/Essay – What makes John le Carré a writer of substance, by Simon Schama | Financial Times
Liberal Internationalism – The End of the Wilsonian Era By Walter Russell Mead | Foreign Affairs

Why Wilsonianism failed… but why the quest for world order continues. My latest @ForeignAffairs https://t.co/IRn5lBGao9
— Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) December 17, 2020

US/Cyber warfare – US cyber hack poses ‘grave risk’ to critical infrastructure by Hannah Murphy | Financial Times
Biden Transition – Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms | Glenn Greenwald

NATO/Russia – NATO-Russia Crisis Brief PDF 📥 | December 2020 | Global Zero

“These days, conflict between NATO and Russia could only happen inadvertently. To prevent it, handling incidents and exchanging information is key.” – @DmitriTrenin of @CarnegieRu @CarnegieRussia https://t.co/mmMod0YEhx
— Global Zero (@globalzero) December 17, 2020

Russia/Baltics – Managing Adversity: Russia and the Baltics | Carnegie Russia

Baltic states and Russia should start talking again, in order first to lower risk of incidents along NATO-Russia line of contact, argues Lithuania’s ex-too diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas. No dialogue served no useful purpose. https://t.co/phqllREOte через @CarnegieRu
— Dmitri Trenin (@DmitriTrenin) December 17, 2020

Technology/Digital – Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Challenges, EU Agency for Cybersecurity
Technology/Democracy – Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values, Center for AI and Digital Policy
UK/Indo-Pacific –A Very British Tilt: Towards a new UK strategy in the Indo-Pacific Region, Policy Exchange’s Indo-Pacific Commission

Europe – What the New Geopolitics Means for Europe Charles Grant | CER
US/China – Competition With China Could Be Short and Sharp, Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs
EU – Upgrading Europe’s Civilian Crisis Management, Christian Mölling and Fiorence Schimmel, DGAP
Arab Spring – Ten years after the start of the Arab Spring, it’s time to accept that the revolution may never return, by Steven A. Cook | Foreign Policy

Intrinsic to the moniker “Arab Spring” was the assumption that good things would follow once leaders were forced from their palaces. Yet looking back over the last decade, the uprisings didn’t produce much more than sorrow, FP’s @stevenacook writes.https://t.co/dO2ALRzlJZ
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) December 17, 2020

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