Your Friday Briefing

16 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

« Only the vanquished remember history. »
Marshall McLuhan

By Azra Isakovic

Friday, April 16, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Featured

EU – Imagine that the coronavirus pandemic, rather than undermining confidence in the European Union, had strengthened it, Yanis Varoufakis | Project Syndicate

.@yanisvaroufakis imagines how the pandemic could have made the European Union stronger, not weaker. https://t.co/sHtrK4mJo4
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) April 10, 2021

Books

Essay –Brexit and the Two Irelands by Ophélie Siméon | Books & Ideas
Essay –The Japanese Press: a Global Exception? by César Castellvi | Books & Ideas
9/11 –Reign of Terror , Spencer Ackerman | Penguin Random House

Happy to announce a big endorsement for my forthcoming book. Preorder: https://t.co/6ujakcvGMq pic.twitter.com/gevIKk070x
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) April 15, 2021

Must-Reads

Vaccines – Always Read the Methods Section | Zeynep Tufekci
Vaccines – What a J&J vaccine pause means Matthew Field | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
EU/China/Russia – The EU’s Worst Nightmare: a China-Russian Axis, David Hutt | Internationale Politik Quarterly
US/Japan – The Summit That Can’t Fail Michael Hirsh | Foreign Policy
Germany – The Race to Define Germany’s Evolving Political Center Jeremy Cliffe | NS
India – India’s Trump Card Against China Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures
Russia/Ukraine – Why Russia Is Threatening Escalation Gustav Gressel | ECFR
Russia/Ukraine – Russian pressure on Ukraine: military and political dimensions, Marek Menkiszak and Andrzej Wilk | OSW
Digital/EU/UK/US – Do continued EU data flows to the United Kingdom offer hope for the United States? Kenneth Propp | Atlantic Council
Drones/Middle East –Droning On in the Middle East, Francis Fukuyama | American Purpose
Diplomacy – How Diplomacy Falls Flat Sholto Byrnes | The National The National
Taiwan – Is War Over Taiwan Imminent? Yun Sun | Korea Times
US/Japan – Can Japan, U.S. Lead way to 6G? James Schoff & Joshua Levy | The Diplomat

Is war over #Taiwan imminent? In her new op-ed with the Korea Times & APLN, Yun Sun, Co-director @Stimson_EAsia explores the plausibility of different options ranging from a peaceful unification and a war between China and US over Taiwan.https://t.co/KzVwdE6TqT pic.twitter.com/RoCPiD2yRm
— Asia Pacific Leadership Network (@APLNofficial) April 15, 2021

Research & Analysis

Proxy Warfare – The Future of Sino-U.S. Proxy War Dominic Tierney | Texas National Security Review
Russia/Central and Eastern Europe/Western Balkans –Russia: mighty Slavic brother or hungry bear next-door? The image of Russia in Central & Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, Daniel Milo | Globesec
China/Europe/Economy – Home advantage: How China’s protected market threatens Europe’s economic power, Agatha Kratz and Janka Oertel | ECFR
US/Health – The Time Is Now for U.S. Global Leadership on Covid-19 Vaccines, J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine E. Bliss and Anna McCaffrey | CSIS
NATO/Climate –A Climate Security Plan for Nato: Collective Defence for the 21st Century, Erin Sikorski and Sherri Goodman | Policy Exchange

📖 Online now: The Geopolitics of Climate Change, first edition of the new @Policy_Exchange journal, Environmental Affairs.

Read here 👇https://t.co/xd582dsra7

1/5
— Policy Exchange (@Policy_Exchange) April 14, 2021

Podcast

UK – Wales, England and the Future of the UK, Daniel Wincott | Talking Politics

Your Friday Briefing

9 avril 20219 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“Politics is not an exact science.” Otto Von Bismarck

By Azra Isakovic

Friday, April 9, 2021

Good Day

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Featured

Post-neoliberalism – The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008, Will Davies | Theory, Culture & Society
Post-neoliberalism –Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit Harrison Smith, Roger Burrows | Theory, Culture & Society

My article, The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government, part of a forthcoming special issue I'm co-editing on 'post-neoliberalism?', is online https://t.co/JfotzNbSYn
— Will Davies (@davies_will) April 8, 2021

Books

Xinjiang – Eurasian Crossroads – A History of Xinjiang, James A. Millward | Hurst Publishers
Middle East – The Middle East Crisis Factory – Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance, Ahmed Gatnash, Iyad El-Baghdadi | Hurst Publishers

OUT NOW 💫

Has autocracy won out in the Middle East?

Two children of the region, @iyad_elbaghdadi & @gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of broken promises.

Get 25% off ‘The Middle East Crisis Factory’ w/code ‘MECRISIS25' ➡️ https://t.co/ewDxnFJzkJ pic.twitter.com/7Sfd6FKTRv
— Hurst Publishers (@HurstPublishers) April 8, 2021

Must-Reads

EU/US/Economy – Europe has a lot to learn from Joe Biden’s audacity, Philip Stephens | Financial Times
US🇺🇸/China🇨🇳/Taïwan🇹🇼 – Biden Backs Taiwan, but Some Call for a Clearer Warning to China, Michael Crowley | The New York Times
China – China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Goes Global Maya Wang | Foreign Affairs
China/Myanmar – Will Beijing Intervene in Myanmar? Abby Seiff | ChinaFile
China/Taiwan – Taiwan and the Use of Force: China’s Conundrum Frank Ching | Japan Times
Myanmar – Myanmar’s Military Chooses Total Violence Francis Wade | New Statesman
EU – Friends like these: How foreign policy could derail an alliance of Europe’s populist right, Pawel Zerka | ECFR
Russia/Ukraine – Kremlin saber-rattling in Ukraine: How the West should react, Steven Pifer | Brookings
Covid19/Vaccine – Germany starting talks to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, by Jillian Deutsch | POLITICO Europe
Covid19/Vaccine – Britain’s vaccine success was supposed to lead to freedom. What happened? Kate Andrews | The Spectator

#Covid19/#Vaccin/ Le succès du vaccin britannique était censé conduire à la liberté. Qu'est-il arrivé? Kate Andrews @KateAndrs | The Spectator @spectator https://t.co/2s4rV68gUR
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 9, 2021

Research & Analysis

Post-neoliberalism –TCS Special Issue: ‘Post-neoliberalism?’ | Theory, Culture & Society
Hardware Innovation – Labs Over Fabs: RISC-V’s Promise by Jordan Schneider | ChinaTalk
US/Security/Technology –Linking National Security and Innovation: Part 1, James Andrew Lewis | CSIS
Ukraine – Ukraine’s half-hearted reforms: What needs to change in the West’s approach? Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau | FIIA

Podcasts

UE🇪🇺/Turquie🇹🇷/Podcast🎧 – Entre démocratie et transactionnalisme | SWP Berlin

Your Thursday Briefing

1 avril 20212 avril 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

« A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what’s going on. » William S. Burroughs

By Azra Isakovic

Thursday April 1, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Featured

COVID-19/Vaccine –Here’s how to get billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world Chad P. Bown & Thomas J. Bollyky | Peterson Institute

#Covid19/#Vaccin/ Voici comment obtenir des milliards de doses de vaccin COVID-19 dans le monde, Chad P. Bown & Thomas J. Bollyky | Peterson Institute @PIIE https://t.co/v6vgXQqXRb
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) April 1, 2021

Books

Ayn Rand – I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand David Sloan Wilson | Nautilus
Review – Investing With Keynes Philip Delves Broughton | The Wall Street Journal

“When statistics do not seem to make sense, I find it is generally wiser to prefer sense to statistics.” #JohnMaynardKeynes #quoteoftheday #EconTwitter

Philip Delves Broughton reviews “Investing With Keynes” by Justyn Walsh https://t.co/E9P9I1xjIk via @WSJ
— 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 (@Bill14wall) March 30, 2021

Must-Reads

France –Macron Returns France to Lockdown as Vaccinations Lag, by Norimitsu Onishi and Constant Méheut | The New York Time
France/Defense – The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war | The Economist
Germany/Health – ‘We are a laughing stock’: Covid-19 and Germany’s political malaise, Guy Chazan | Financial Times
Suez – On the Suez Canal and Chokepoints George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
US/Army – U.S. Army Goes to School on Nagorno-Karabakh Jack Detsch | Foreign Policy
India – India Has a Stake in Myanmar Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Indian Express
Cyberworld Order – Russia and China Try to Rewrite the Cyberworld Order David Ignatius | WaPo
Russia/Italy – Russian Spy Case Escalates in Italy | RFERL
Pakistan/India – Another Tactical Thaw in Pakistan-India Relations Aryaman Bhatnagar | WPR
China/EU – China’s New Bogeyman: Europe Stuart Lau | Politico EU
US – The U.S. Cannot Be Choosy About Its Allies Janan Ganesh | Financial Times
US/MBS – A Wiser U.S. Check on MBS’s Power F. Gregory Gause III | Foreign Affairs
EU/Trade – Europe and the Prospects for WTO Reform, Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett | CFR
US –Biden unveils $2tn infrastructure plan and big corporate tax rise, James Politi | Financial Times

28 per cent corporate income tax rate + global minimum tax rate at 21 per cent on a country-by-country basis: Biden’s plan is a game-changer, not only for the US but for global corporate taxation. Bad day for the tax havens.
https://t.co/aVS3FxofSN
— Jean Pisani-Ferry (@pisaniferry) March 31, 2021

Research & Analysis

Disinformation – Critical Disinformation Studies | unc_citap
Europe/Deterrence – Europe’s Evolving Deterrence Discourse, Amelia Morgan and Anna Peczeli, eds. | LLNL /King’s College/SAIC
EU – The power surplus, Ignacio Garcia Bercero and Kalypso Nicolaidis | CEPS
UK/Digital – Why The Government’s Integrated Defence Review Risks Sounding Like “Cyber-Rattling”, Ciaran Martin | Prospect/forum.eu

The 🇪🇺 needs to develop a coherent overall approach to the external dimension of its regulatory policies write @ignaciobercero & @KalypsoNicolaid

➡️READ NOWhttps://t.co/AhNDQaiS3j pic.twitter.com/NM8hVjV8XR
— CEPS ThinkTank (@CEPS_thinktank) March 31, 2021

Podcasts

Enjeux Internationaux – Le Sri Lanka, théâtre de la rivalité Inde/Chine, Julie Gacon et Raphaëlle Khan | France Culture

France/Defense – The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war | The Economist

Atlas Hugged – David Sloan Wilson talks about his new book | Simpol

My @NautilusMag article on http://www.AtlasHugged continues to get a lot of attention. Arguably the first science-informed novel of the Post-Individualist age. https://t.co/jC8l73Ab07. @nytdavidbrooks @paulkrugman @econnaturalist @primalpoly @mercatus @tylercowen @Noahpinion.
— David Sloan Wilson (@David_S_Wilson) March 27, 2021

Your Tuesday Briefing

9 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

“The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.” Lord Acton

By Azra Isakovic

Tuesday, March 09

Good morning

Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing

Books

À propos de : Par-delà les frontières du corps, Silvia Federici, | Éditions du remue-ménage
Ideas – The Women Who Changed war Reporting George Packer, The Atlantic

George Packer reviews two fascinating new books, one about women war correspondents and one by one of our leading women war correspondents: “You Don’t Belong Here” by @Elizbeckerwrite and “The Spymaster of Baghdad” by @mideastmargaret https://t.co/z2zXvlEdJZ
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 8, 2021

Must-Reads

US – Responsible Statecraft Requires Remaking America’s Foreign Relations Tool Kit, Gordon Adams | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
US – The Chimera of Globalist Empire Andrew Michta, National Review
Nuclear – Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous By Brenda Shaffer | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
US/Defense – Abandon Old Assumptions About Defense Spending Robert Levinson, WOTR
Taiwan – The West Needs a More Collaborative Approach to Taiwan Michael Mazza, AEI
Vaccines – Is Choice Always Worth the Anxiety? | Zeynep Tufekci
Myanmar – Myanmar’s Month-Long ‘Phony War’ Is Over Bill Hayton, Chatham House
Europe/Russia – Away From Europe! Igor Torbakov | Utrikesmagasinet
China/Decoupling – Pharma groups spend billions to tap into booming China healthcare, Mercedes Ruehl and Demetri Sevastopulo | Financial Times

Decoupling from China? Not in finance in 2020 and not in pharma either: Record 271 cross-border licensing partnerships were agreed btw multinational groups including Roche, Bayer, AbbVie and Pfizer and Chinese pharma companies. Why? Look at the market! https://t.co/FziOu069iI pic.twitter.com/MObetv5UiJ
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 8, 2021

Research & Analysis

Etudes Ifri – Cyber-influence : les nouveaux enjeux de la lutte informationnelle, par Elie Tenenbaum et Laure de Rochegonde | Ifri 📥 [PDF]
Nato – Containing NATO’s Mediterranean crisis, by Luigi Scazzieri | CER [PDF]

#EtudesIfri/ Cyber-influence : les nouveaux enjeux de la lutte informationnelle, par Elie Tenenbaum @ElieTenenbaum et Laure de Rochegonde @LaureRochegonde | Ifri @Ifri_ https://t.co/XfATSObjpK
📥 [PDF] https://t.co/yPIwPwvhe2 pic.twitter.com/LAZLfpZt0E
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 9, 2021

Podcasts

Enjeux internationaux – Le plan de relance américain, par Julie Gacon et Marie-Cécile Naves | France Culture

"Le Parti démocrate ne peut plus cacher ses divisions, qui s'étaient tues le temps de la campagne. Les débats autour du vote de ce plan de relance montrent que les démocrates modérés au Sénat ont un pouvoir important de pression sur l'exécutif" @mc_naves https://t.co/wphKInJtX2
— Julie Gacon (@juliegacon) March 9, 2021

Your Friday Briefing

5 mars 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

» Réfléchir, c’est difficile. C’est pourquoi la plus part des gens jugent. »
Carl Gustav Jung

By Azra Isakovic

Friday, March 05

Good morning

Welcome to Your Friday Briefing

Books

Immigration – We’re Here Because You Were There, by Ian Sanjay Patel | Verso Books
History – Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner | Reaktion Books
Books Reviewed – Merpeople: A Human History by Vaughn Scribner, Reaktion, by Marina Warner | The New York Review of Books
Poland – Europe’s Growth Champion by Marcin Piatkowski | Oxford Academic

#Livres 📚/ "Nous sommes ici parce que vous étiez là-bas" – L'immigration et la fin de l'empire, par Ian Sanjay Patel | Verso Books @VersoBooks https://t.co/b2db5r5uXh pic.twitter.com/bhQ6yk8H6S
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 5, 2021

Must-Reads

France – Is This the End of French Intellectual Life? Christopher Caldwell | New York Times Opinion
US vs China – Biden bets on alliances to push back against Beijing Demetri Sevastopulo | Financial Times
Nuclear Risk – French report grapples with nuclear fallout from Algerian War Austin Cooper | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Vaccine – “Britain’s outsourcing scandal”, by Robert Maisey | Le Monde diplomatique in English US/Germany – US hails German plan to send warship in China Sea | Euractiv
Big Bang – Distinguishing post-communist privatizations from the Big Bang, Branko Milanovic | globalinequality
Vaccine – Vaccine Efficacy, Statistical Power and Mental Models by zeynep tufekci
Russia – Biden’s Risky Russia Sanctions Game Nikolas Gvosdev, Russia Matters
Yemen – Only a Strong White House Can End Yemen’s Civil War Con Coughlin, The National
Africa – Great Power Competition Is Coming to Africa M. Hicks, K. Atwell & D. Collini, FA
Economic behaviour – Witch hunts in pre-modern Germany | Aeon+Psyche
US/Iran – The US, Iran and Bargaining Positions George Friedman | Geopolitical Futures
US – A Foreign Policy for the American People, Antony Blinken | Department of State

#ÉtatsUnis🇺🇸/#Chine🇨🇳/ Biden parie sur des alliances – La nouvelle administration pense qu'elle peut développer une stratégie chinoise plus efficace si elle peut travailler en étroite collaboration avec de vieux amis, par @Dimi | @financialtimes https://t.co/jzW519Skjr
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) March 5, 2021

Research & Analysis

Nuclear Risk – Radioactivity Under the Sand by Jean-Marie Collin and Patrice Bouveret | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | ICAN France
Economy/Freedom – 2021 Index of Economic Freedom, Heritage Foundation
Digital – The Progressive Case for Universal Internet Access | Tony Blair Institute
Netherlands – Geopolitical Genesis: Dutch Foreign and Security Policy in a Post-COVID World, Clingendael/Hague Centre for Security Studies

Podcasts

Vaccin – Pourquoi le vaccin AstraZeneca suscite-t-il autant de réticences ? | France Culture

Argent –Les nazis et l’argent : au coeur du IIIe Reich | ARTE

Your Tuesday Briefing

23 février 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

By Azra Isakovic

Tuesday, February 23

Good morning

Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing

Books

About : Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire, Pankaj Mishra, by Kanishk Tharoor | The New Republic
History – Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? | The New Republic

Le passé sanglant du #libéralisme – Le bilan de Pankaj Mishra, par @kanishktharoor | @newrepublic https://t.co/XjjaP5FP94
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) February 23, 2021

Must-Reads

China –In the new Cold War: Germany wants to be neutral, India is increasingly pro-U.S., the Philippines is trending toward China, and Djibouti is a prized pawn | Bloomberg Opinion
Russia – Putin’s Killers: Russia’s 5 Most Powerful Weapons for Sale National Interest
Joe Biden – Biden’s brief window to fix the world’s broken institutions, Adam Triggs | East Asia Forum
US/China – The Sino-American War of 2025: A Future History Michael Auslin, Spectator
UK/Economy – Keeping up appearances: What now for UK services trade? Sam Lowe, Centre for European Reform
US/Digital – From Washington to Florida, here are Big Tech’s biggest threats from states, Emily Birnbaum, Protocol
US/China/Vaccine – The U.S.-China Global Vaccine Competition Derek Scissors & Dan Blumenthal | AEI

Research & Analysis

Nato/Proliferation – Reviewing NATO’s Non-proliferation and Disarmament Policy, by Katarzyna Kubiak | IAI [PDF]
Nato/Digital – Cyber Defence in NATO Countries: Comparing Models, Alessandro Marrone and Ester Sabatino | IAI
OSCE – The Future of the OSCE, | The Wilson Center [PDF]
EU/Iran –Europe’s Defence of the Iran Nuclear Deal, by Riccardo Alcaro | The Intl Spectator || IAI | Taylor & Francis Research Insights
Covid19/Economy –Trade and Global Value Chains at the Time of Covid-19, Anna Maria Pinna & Luca Lodi | The Intl Spectator | IAI | Taylor & Francis Research Insights

#UE🇪🇺/#Iran🇮🇷/#JCPOA/ La défense européenne de l’accord nucléaire iranien: moins qu’un succès, plus qu’un échec, par @Ric_Alcaro | @intl_spectator | @IAIonline | @tandfonline https://t.co/6pPe9XP73y
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) February 23, 2021

Podcasts

UE/Iran – Europe’s Defence of the Iran Nuclear Deal: Less than a Success, More than a Failure

Your Thursday Briefing

17 février 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules. Ross Perot

By Azra Isakovic

Thursday, February 18

Good morning

Welcome to Your Thursday Briefing

Books

De la démocratie en Pandémie. Santé, recherche, éducation Barbara Stiegler | Gallimard
« De la démocratie en pandémie » de Barbara Stiegler | Le Monde

Must-Reads

Sahel – Sonnenfinsternis im Sahel, Issio Ehrich | ZEIT ONLINE
Germany/Russia –Russia holds the key to German sovereignty Pepe Escobar | Asia Times
US/China – Why U.S.-China Phase 1 Trade Deal Flopped Chad Bown, PIIE
US/Turkey – Small Steps Can Help Mend U.S.-Turkey Relations David Lepeska, The National
US – Did Trump Permanently Change U.S. Foreign Policy? Panel of experts, For. Affairs
Taiwan/Germany – Taiwan Doesn’t Owe Germany Any Help Chang Feng-lin, Taipei Times
China/Vaccine – China: A Coronavirus Vaccine Superpower? Ethen Kim Lieser, 1945
Martin Baron: « We Had To Be Much More Forthright about Trump » | DER SPIEGEL
Climate – To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil? | HBS Working Knowledge
Russia/Balkans – What Russia Wants In The Balkans, Zlatko Hadzidedic | Modern Diplomacy

Research & Analysis

South Korea – The Economic Pillar of Korea’s New Southern Policy, Françoise NICOLAS | Ifri [PDF]
UK/Diplomacy – UK Economic Diplomacy in the 21st Century | LSE [PDF]
UK/China –Protect, Constrain, Contest: Approaches for coordinated transatlantic economic and technological competition with China | LSE [PDF]
Europe/Afrique – Les relations Europe-Afrique à l’aune de la pandémie de Covid-19. | Fondation Schuman [PDF]

Podcasts

Santé – De la démocratie en pandémie Barbara Stiegler

Your Tuesday Briefing

16 février 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

La politique est une question trop sérieuse pour être laissée aux politiciens.
Charles de Gaulle

By Azra Isakovic

Tuesday, February 16

Good morning

Welcome to Your Tuesday Briefing

Books

« Boomers » – The men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster by Helen Andrews | Penguin Random House
Review – Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster Kay S. Hymowitz | City Journal

#Livres📚/ « Les baby-boomers » – Les hommes et les femmes qui ont promis la liberté et provoqué la catastrophe, par Helen Andrews @herandrews | @penguinrandom https://t.co/TcYSq3xLqg pic.twitter.com/8Pweb1YGHZ
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) February 16, 2021

Must-Reads

Poland – Reflections on Poland’s Alliances Jacek Bartosiak, Geopolitical Futures
US – America’s Other Forever War Peter Beinart, New York Times
China/Vaccine – Will China Be a Global Vaccine Leader? Deborah Seligsohn et al, ChinaFile
EU/Foreign Policy – EU Foreign Policy RIP Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Germany/Russia – Germany’s Bridges to Russia Split Open Europe Tony Barber, Financial Times
US – How to Rebuild the State Department Robert Kaplan, National Interest
China/Uighurs – Uighurs in Exile Wait on the World to Act Rachel Cheung & Benjamin Wilhelm, WPR

Research & Analysis

Energy/India – India Energy Outlook 2021 – Analysis – IEA [PDF]

#Inde🇮🇳/ India Energy Outlook 2021 | International Energy Agency @IEA https://t.co/WM5z4rKewe
📥 [PDF] https://t.co/nJiZMnCEQ9 pic.twitter.com/9BMvF6rVJH
— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) February 16, 2021

Podcasts

Inégalités – Inégalités, précarité, des clés pour les surmonter | France Culture

Revues

Your Wednesday Briefing

27 janvier 2021 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

By Azra Isakovic

Jan. 27, 2021

Good morning

Welcome to Your Wednesday Briefing

Books

Napoleon’s Kindle – See the Miniaturized Traveling Library He Took on Military Campaigns | Open Cultur
Book Review – Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law, by Deborah Pearlstein | War on the Rocks
Law’s Wars – The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US ‘War on Terror’ by Richard Abel | Cambridge University Press
Law’s Trials – The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US ‘War on Terror’ by Richard Abel | Cambridge University Press

Must-Reads

COVID-19 – A Race Between Vaccines and the Virus as Recoveries Diverge, by Gita Gopinath | IMF
US – Our Radicalized Republic, Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux | FiveThirtyEight
US/EU – Working With the Biden Administration: Opportunities for the EU, Rosa Balfour, et al., Carnegie Europe
US/EU/China – Making the World Great Again: Europe, the United States, and China, Radek Sikorski | Lisbon Council
EU/UK/Indo-Pacific – Can the EU and UK Cooperate in the Indo-Pacific, David Hutt | Internationale Politik Quarterly
Global/Health – The Sting in COVID-19’s Tail, Tarek Ghani | Foreign Affairs
Middle East/Europe – Arab spring, European winter, H.A. Hellyer | Politico
Nuclear – Revitalizing nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and China, Robert Einhorn | Brookings
Nuclear – Extending New START Should Be Just the Beginning, Megan Dubois, Gaurav Kalwani, Pranay Vaddi | Carnegie Endowment

Research & Analysis

US/Technology – Draft Final Report, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
China – A Remarkable Resemblance: Germany from 1900 to 1945 and China today. Time for a NATO for trade? Robert D. Atkinson, International Economy
Kosovo/Serbia – Relaunching the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue | International Crisis Group

Podcasts

US/Russia – Engaging the Evil Empire War on the Rocks
China vs. Australia – Essential Geopolitics: China vs. Australia Stratfor Worldview

Your Monday Briefing : What you should know for Monday, December 28

28 décembre 2020 / Azra Isakovic / Poster un commentaire

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte

Azra Isakovic

Good Morning

Your Monday Briefing: What you should know for Monday, December 28

Vaccinations – E.U.’s Mass Vaccination Campaign Starts, With Nursing Homes as Focus by Melissa Eddy et Marc Santora | New York Times

via @NYTimes https://t.co/LSz6AL47fS
— Marc Santora (@MarcSantoraNYT) December 27, 2020

The World in 2021 – A difficult year looms for the European Union | The Economist

The World in 2021 – The Chinese Communist Party turns 100 | The Economist

EU🇪🇺/#UK🇬🇧/ Brexit trade deal explained: the key parts of the landmark agreement | Financial Times

EU🇪🇺/#UK🇬🇧/ EU member states begin process to approve Brexit trade deal | Financial Times

EU🇪🇺/#UK🇬🇧/ The draft EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement | European Commission

🇪🇺🇬🇧Here is the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement – the result of many months of intensive and dedicated work:

👉 https://t.co/Vq3VKBB01y
— Michel Barnier (@MichelBarnier) December 26, 2020

Ideas: The Triumph of Kleptocracy, by Franklin Foer | The Atlantic

I've been writing about Manafort for years. It was painful to absorb this latest turn. But the lesson of his life is that venality always prevails in the end. I should have seen this coming… https://t.co/DZPYCfUHAo
— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) December 24, 2020

The Good Son, by Franklin Foer | The Atlantic

2020 Is a Hinge of History Hal Brands, Bloomberg

America’s History of Luck Is Running Out Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

The Many Questions That Follow the Brexit Agreement Economist

Ethiopia’s War Casts a Shadow Over Sudan Nasr Eddin al-Tayib, Worldcrunch

Foundation of a Russian Protectorate Vladimir Socor, Jamestown

America Needs a Defense Authorization Act James Jay Carafano, Heritage

5 Foreign Policy Stories to Watch in 2021 James Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations

A Deal to End Brexit Delusions Martin Wolf, Financial Times

No Telling Whether Brexit Deal Is Good Stephen Bush, New Statesman

Small Print of Brexit Deal Is Reassuring Steven Barrett, Spectator

A Win for Boris, for Now Charlie Cooper, Politico EU