Your Thursday Briefing

31 décembre 202031 décembre 2020 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

Croyez en vos rêves et ils se réaliseront peut-être. Croyez en vous et ils se réaliseront sûrement. Martin Luther King

Azra Isakovic

Thursday, December 31

Good evening

Your Thursday Briefing – What you should know for Thursday December 31

Books

Books – Top 10 Books: the International Affairs Christmas reading list 2020 | InternationalAffairs

Book 1 in the @IAJournal_CH Christmas reading list is @AdomGetachew's WORLDMAKING AFTER EMPIRE. Read the full review and find the rest of the list here: https://t.co/ALbB8OeLb6 @PrincetonUPress pic.twitter.com/V9o9uHN1Yc
— InternationalAffairs (@IAJournal_CH) December 22, 2020

Books – Engaging China | Columbia University Press

Books – Look to the future — what to read in 2021 | Financial Times

Books – Citizenship between Empire and Nation by Frederick Cooper | Princeton University Press

#Livres📚/ Meilleurs livres d'histoire de la dernière décennie : Citoyenneté entre empire et nation: refaire la France et l'Afrique française, 1945-1960 par Frederick Cooper | Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/eEEYF6J1kR pic.twitter.com/H7Tzesg0BL
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 31, 2020

Books –The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz | Mostafa Minawi | Stanford Press

Books – Outsourcing Empire, J C Sharman and Andrew Phillips | Princeton University Press

Books – Best Books of the Year 2020 | Financial Times

Must-Reads

Chin🇨🇳/HongKong🇭🇰 – Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai sent back to jail | Financial Times

EU/China – 10 Key Details in UK-EU Trade Deal Anna Isaac, Politico EU

EU/China – What is in the EU-China investment treaty? | Financial Times

#UE🇪🇺/#Chine🇨🇳 Qu'y a-t-il dans le traité d'investissement UE-Chine? https://t.co/o3Eq3IgS4O via @financialtimes
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 31, 2020

Asia/RCEP – “What RCEP can tell us about geopolitics in Asia” Rocky Intan | Lowy Institute

Covid19 – COVID Has No Grand Lesson for the World Janan Ganesh, Financial Times

Asie/RCEP – What RCEP can tell us about geopolitics in Asia Rocky Intan | Lowy Institute

Foreign Policy – Foreign Policy Stories That Packed a Punch in 2020 Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy

UK – Offa’s Dyke: Britain’s Unmarked ‘No-Man’s Land’ Oliver Smith, BBC

Indonesia’s Nonalignment Problem Nithin Coca, Foreign Affairs

Biden – Biden Must Embrace Liberal Nationalism John Mearsheimer, National Interest

U.S. Will to Fight Boils Down to Its Interests Chang Kuo-tsai, Taipei Times

Handling the Growing Risk of Doing Business With China M. Shoebridge, ASPI

Europe – Europe’s Misconceived Cohesion by Bálint Magyar, et al | Project Syndicate

China🇨🇳/BigTech – The big questions for Big Tech in 2021 | FT China

Research & Analysis

Africa/Sahel – Rethinking Crisis Responses in the Sahel, Judd Devermont & Marielle Harris | CSIS PDF

#Afrique/#Sahel Repenser les réponses aux crises au Sahel Judd Devermont & Marielle Harris | @CSIS https://t.co/lgP1NrKckG
Pdf : https://t.co/rwLgZN02HT
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 31, 2020

US/Syria – Reframing US Syria policy: The road to Damascus runs through Moscow | Brookings Institution PDF

Conférences/ Frederick Cooper : Empire, nation et citoyenneté : la France et l’Afrique

Asia/Trade – Digital trade in the Asia-Pacific by Deborah Elms | Hinrich Foundation

Thank you and Happy New Year !

Azra

Your Monday Briefing

7 décembre 20207 décembre 2020 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Pascal Lamy

Azra Isakovic
Dec. 7, 2020

Good morning

Paris eyes Recovery Fund for 25 member states | EURACTIV

Good morning. Here's the news from The Capitals today:
🇫🇷 France suggests implementing EU recovery plan without Hungary, Poland
🇧🇪 Airlift of #COVID-19 vaccines from Belgium to the UK
🇧🇬 Bulgaria may not allow entry to non-vaccinated peoplehttps://t.co/wRdOTCCuuy
— EURACTIV (@EURACTIV) December 7, 2020

EU countries feel ‘numb’ about Turkey ahead of critical EU summit | EURACTIV

Europe’s Most Terrible Years Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books

China tries to rewrite the narrative of the pandemic, By Javier C. Hernández | New York Times

China unleashes pandemic propaganda on world.Acc to CCP,C19 came from anywhere but Wuhan:Italy,India, Spain,US. Any word spoken by a scientist is twisted to meet CCP's goals while WHO is being strong armed by Chinese scientists seeking to control narrative.https://t.co/w7MnjPu0c6
— Theresa Fallon (@TheresaAFallon) December 6, 2020

1918 Germany Has a Warning for America, by Jochen Bittner | New York Times

The Case for a Quadripolar World Daron Acemoglu, Project Syndicate

China’s Bullying Hasn’t Silenced Australia Elaine Pearson, National Post

The Borshch Battles Michele Berdy, Moscow Times

The U.S. Companies Enabling Uyghur Genocide Paul Brian, American Conservative

Dealing With Russia’s Mercenary Armies Candace Rondeaux, World Politics Review

López Obrador Is Militarizing Mexico Milena Ang, Financial Times

Why Iran Is Getting the Bomb Lee Smith, Tablet

Italy’s North-South Divide, Maradona Edition Hannah Roberts, Politico EU

Culture Vital to Easing Path to Arab-Israeli Peace Ahmed al Mansoori, Jer. Post

Liberal Internationalism Is Still Indispensable Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy

Biden’s Chance for a Legacy Runs Through Europe, China Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council

Japan, France, US planning first joint military drills in May Report | The Straits Times

Le #Japon 🇯🇵 la France 🇫🇷 et les États-Unis 🇺🇸 prévoient leurs premiers exercices militaires conjoints en Mai dans l'Est de la Mer de Chine 📝 @STcom
https://t.co/RVssp5aQYJ
— AsieNews (@AsiaNews_FR) December 6, 2020

Azra_Files : Your Friday Briefing

4 décembre 20204 décembre 2020 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

« Quand la vérité n’est pas libre, la liberté n’est pas vraie » Jacques Prévert

Azra Isakovic

Good Morning

Here’s what you need to know:

Books – “The Fabulists – The World’s New Rulers, Their Myths and the Struggle Against Them” by Michael Peel | Oneworld Publications

#Livres📚/ “The Fabulists – The World’s New Rulers, Their Myths and the Struggle Against Them” by Michael Peel via @OneworldNews https://t.co/9JTIYovEQp pic.twitter.com/MfFmtHnteG
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 4, 2020

EU identity crisis: Poland, Hungary and the fight over Brussels’ values | Financial Times

EU identity crisis: Poland, Hungary and the fight over Brussels’ values https://t.co/CcfFyIukr9 via @financialtimes
— Sam Fleming (FT) (@Sam1Fleming) December 4, 2020

EU common budget – Brussels warns Poland and Hungary they cannot stop EU recovery fund – Bloc drawing up plans to push through €750bn project over two nations’ objections Sam Fleming and James Shotter | FT

US – Revitalizing the State Department and American Diplomacy, by Uzra S. ZEYA and Jon FINER, The Council on Foreign Relations

UE/Royaume-Uni – Breaking up is hard to do. Royaume-Uni et Union européenne après le Brexit, by Florence Faucher, Colin Hay, Revue Politique étrangère, hiver 2020-2021 | Institute français des relations internationales

Notre nouveau numéro (n° PE 4/2020) sort bientôt (J-4) ! Nous vous offrons à lire dès aujourd'hui l'article de Florence Faucher et Colin Hay, "Breaking up is hard to do : #RoyaumeUni et Union européenne après le #Brexit" 🇬🇧🇪🇺: https://t.co/vR51PfeSW6 pic.twitter.com/5mebGl3ZZ9
— Politique étrangère (@Pol_Etrangere) December 3, 2020

EU/US – A new EU-US agenda for global change, European Commission and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

EU – Brussels considers creating recovery fund without Hungary and Poland, by Sam Fleming et Mehreen Khan | Financial Times

US/Iran – Four ways the killing of Iran’s nuclear scientist will undercut US national security, by John Krzyzaniak | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Iran🇮🇷/ Quatre façons dont le meurtre du scientifique nucléaire iranien compromettra la sécurité nationale américaine, par @john_krzyzaniak via @BulletinAtomic https://t.co/NEkBF8eg3f
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 4, 2020

Energy/China – Unpacking China’s 2060 carbon neutrality pledge By Michal MEIDAN | The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

France – France to investigate 76 mosques suspected of ‘separatism’, by Victor Mallet | Financial Times

China/Xinjiang – Inside A Xinjiang Detention Camp | BuzzFeedNews

Inside a camp at Xinjiang. Stunning/horrifying work by @meghara + @alisonkilling https://t.co/OSkrg2zsiz
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) December 3, 2020

Vaccines/ The ‘everything rally’: vaccines prompt wave of market exuberance | Financial Times

Belgium/Russia – Dealing with Russia: Towards a coherent Belgian policy, Alexander Mattelaer and Laura Vansina (eds.), Egmont Institute

Inequality/Economy – COVID-10 has widened the income gap in Europe, Zsolt Darvas. Bruegel

Russia/Turkey – Best Frenemies, Anton Mardasov, Kirill Semyonov, Riddle

Brexit/Vaccine – Of Brexit and Vaccines Tom McTague, The Atlantic

Vaccine – The Geopolitics of Vaccine Distribution Alex Berezow, Geopolitical Futures

US –Alliances First: How to Reshape Global Order Ash Jain & Alex Pascal, National Interest

India – India’s Angry Farmers Have Reason to Worry Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg