Best of the fortnight - 16 December 2022
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Each fortnight BISA Director, Juliet Dryden, scours the internet for IR-related content that might interest you. Here she brings you this week's best readings and podcasts to keep you up to date with what's happening around the world.
Global Issues
- AI could predict climate crises, but that’s not what climate migrants need. Lucia Nalbandian for openDemocracy
- Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth? The Economist
- The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What’s at Stake? Lindsay Maizland for Council on Foreign Relations
- The Geopolitics of AI and the Rise of Digital Sovereignty. Benjamin Cedric Larson for Brookings
- 1.5°C: where the target came from – and why we’re losing sight of its importance. Piers Forster for The Conversation
- Podcast: The Age of Extinction: Can we Prevent an Ecological Collapse? Today in Focus by The Guardian
UK and Europe
- Germany’s Unlearned Lessons. Liana Fix and Thorsten Benner for Foreign Affairs
- I grew up in a war that has never ended. Marine Martirosyan for openDemocracy
- What can the UK learn from Italy’s election of a far-right PM? Adam Ramsay for openDemocracy
- What is the Reichsbürger movement accused of trying to overthrow the German government? Claire Burchett for The Conversation
- EU leaders try to sideline Qatar scandal — while they still can. Suzanne Lynch for Politico
- The Strange Case of Britain’s Demise. The Economist
- What do politicians really think of economists? Our new research explains why relations fell apart after 2008. Anna Killick for The Conversation
- Podcast: Continental Drift: Europe’s Challenges. The Intelligence by The Economist
- Podcast: The far-right plot to overthrow Germany’s government. The Daily by The New York Times
Russia and Ukraine
- The End of the New Peace. Yuval Noah Harari for The Atlantic
- Russia’s New Theory of Victory. Mick Ryan for Foreign Affairs
- Ukraine war: what the Northern Ireland peace process can tell us about ending this conflict. Tom Hadden for The Conversation
- Why betting on Putin’s departure is a losing game. Anna Matveeva for openDemocracy
- Ukraine war: drones are transforming the conflict, bringing Russia on to the frontline. Stefan Wolff and David Hastings Dunn for The Conversation
- Why Russia’s cyber-attacks have fallen flat. The Economist
- Ukraine war: Poland welcomed refugees with open arms at first, but survey shows relations are becoming more strained. Félix Krawatzek and Piotr Goldstein for The Conversation
USA
- Why the age of American progress ended. Derek Thompson for The Atlantic
- Podcast: The CIA and the new cold war: what history tells us about its influence today. Rhodri Jeffreys Jones for In Depth Out Loud by The Conversation
- Biden Aims to Inject New Energy Into U.S. Relations With African Nations. Peter Baker and Declan Walsh for The New York Times
South America
- Peru declares 30-day state of emergency amid protests at president’s arrest. Dan Collyns for The Guardian
- The Death Squad Dossier. Peter Canby for New York Review of Books
China/Asia
- China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started. Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic
- Podcast: The Future of Media Freedom in India. World Review by The New Statesman
- China and Russia’s uneven relationship can be explained with one word. Ariel Shangguan for The Conversation
Middle East
- Let Afghanistan Rebuild. Graeme Smith and Delaney Simon for Foreign Affairs
- Iran executes first protester as human rights abuses come under international scrutiny. Sahar Maranlou for The Conversation
- The forgotten war: what Russia could win from the reignited conflict in Syria. Stefan Wolff for The Conversation
- Qatar: why we are critical of some countries’ human rights records and not others. Ross Bennett-Cook for The Conversation
Africa
- Senegal failing to tackle misogyny amid growing violence against women. Marame Gueye and Khaita Sylla for openDemocracy
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Why ‘liberal peacebuilding’ isn’t delivering for DR Congo’s ethnic minorities. Thomas Shacklock and Delphin Rukumbuzi Ntanyoma for openDemocracy
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Putting African Aspirations First. Ebenezer Obadare for Council on Foreign Relations
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