The EU’s Strategic Autonomy Trap | How ‘Maximum Pressure’ Failed Against Iran | The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention | B-52s in the Middle East | Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union

By Azra Isakovic

Wednesday, March 10 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Wednesday Briefing

Books

Philosophy – The Crisis of German Philosophy, by Graham Mcaleer  | Law & Liberty
Reviewed – Learning to Grieve, by Clair Wills | The New York Review of Books
Russia – Fear, Loathing, and Surrealism in Russia, by Emina Melonic | Law & Liberty

Without the moral framework, all we have left is totalitarian ideology, and one cannot build an authentic life and an authentic country on a lie. My newest piece @LawLiberty.
Fear, Loathing, and Surrealism in Russia https://t.co/JQETVZIEvY

— Emina Melonic ☕ (@EminaMelonic) March 9, 2021

Must-Reads

EU – The EU’s Strategic Autonomy Trap by Richard Youngs | Carnegie Europe

The EU has placed strategic autonomy at the heart of its foreign policy.

The policy risks undercutting, not driving, the union's projection of geopolitical power; the EU needs more input about its inconsistencies & possible drawbacks, says @YoungsRichard.https://t.co/ruXBFFegLA

— Carnegie Europe (@Carnegie_Europe) March 10, 2021

US/Arctic – How the U.S. Can Win the Arctic  by Robert O’Brien & Ryan Tully, National Interest
Russia/China/US – A Russian-Chinese Partnership Against America?  by Charles Ziegler, National Interest
Israel – Israel Is the Arab World’s New Great Power  by Anchal Vohra | Foreign Policy
Africa – Uganda’s Election Re-Exposed Regional Faultlines  by L. Taylor & H. Matsiko | Afr. Arg.
Georgia Future – Georgia’s Democratic Future Is in Doubt  by Paul Stronski | World Politics Review
China – The Stories China Tells  by Jessica Chen Weiss | Foreign Affairs
US/ Middle East – B-52s in the Middle East by George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
China/Middle East – The Role China Might Play in the Middle East  by James Dorsey | Responsible Statecraft
Iran/JCPOE – How ‘Maximum Pressure’ Failed Against Iran  | International Crisis Group

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Iran🇮🇷/ L'échec de la «pression maximale» contre l'Iran | @crisisgroup https://t.co/BDFNqHtA2G

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 10, 2021

Research & Analysis

EU/Western Balkans – Slovenia, Serbia and an EU-Balkan breakthrough in 2021 | European Stability Initiative ESI
Economy – Strengthening the recovery: The need for speed. Interim Economic Outlook | OECD
China/Human Rights – The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention, | New Lines Institute

"The policy & practice of #China toward the #Uyghurs is inseparable from 'the intent to destroy'."

Read @NewlinesInst’s latest groundbreaking report, done in cooperation with @TheRWCHR, which provides the evidence needed to designate genocide:https://t.co/bJMMQvht5h

— Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy (@NewlinesInst) March 9, 2021

Podcasts

Enjeux Internationaux – La justice brésilienne, indépendante ou opportuniste ?  Julie Gacon | France Culture

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Quote of the day :
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. Hermann Hesse