Best of the week - 19 November 2020
Each week 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.
What’s going on with the US Presidential transition?
America’s treacherous transition. How Trump’s Recalcitrance Threatens U.S. National Security. Read Ivo H Daalder and James. M. Lindsay in Foreign Affairs
There is no conventional coup. Trump is paving the way for a ‘virtual Confederacy’ Jonathan Freedman in The Guardian
The struggle for America’s sole. John Gray in The New Statesman
The madness of King Trump. Ian Martin for The Guardian.
US foreign policy
The seven pillars of Biden’s foreign policy. Robin Wright in The New Yorker
Trump drove Latin American into China’s arms. Oliver Stuenkel in Foreign Affairs
The impact of Biden’s presidency on the Middle East and North Africa. Read a commentary from RUSI with Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Antonio Giustozzi, Michael Stephens, H A Hellyer and Tobias Borck
No exit. Why America cannot leave the Middle East. Stephen A Cook in Foreign Affairs.
UK politics
Deal or no deal Brexit. Cummings departure turns up the heat on Johnson. Anand Menon in the Guardian
Moral virtue in the time of cholera. How an epidemic revealed the gulf between Britain and the United States. David Rosner in Foreign Affairs.
And in other news
Making sense of the Yemen war. Read Elisabeth Kendall’s powerful essay in Engelsberg Ideas
The time for building democracy in Hong Kong was before Britain handed it over to China. Now it may be too late says Andreas Fulda in The Conversation
Sudan will decide the outcome of the Ethiopian civil war. Read Nizar Manek and Mohamed Kheir Omer in Foreign Policy
Japan’s quiet rearmament. Jeff Kingston for Prospect Magazine
A metal barbie on the crest of a £1xxx turd. Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an ‘everywoman’. The view from The Critic
Religion, Race and nationality. Read the latest research from Julian Hargreaves in The Conversation.
Each week 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.
Best podcasts
Podcast: ‘How to vaccinate the world’. The dramatic breakthrough in the race for a COVID vaccine means an unprecedented global effort is about to begin. Tim Harford charts its progress for BBC Radio 4
Podcast: Introducing...The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq. David Dimbleby takes us back to those crucial months after September 11th 2001. Talking to prime ministers, politicians, spies and weapons inspectors he asks how and why we came to invade Iraq. A Somethin' Else production
Podcast: Dump the Trump. Save the world. The road to COP 26. Listen to Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
Podcast: Who and what killed James le Mesurier, founder of the White Helmets in Syria? Fascinating tale of intrigue from BBC Radio Sounds
Podcast: ‘War: What is it good for?’ TALKING POLITICS talks to historian Margaret Macmillan
Podcast: Throwback from the past. Listen to Stephen Sakar’s interview with Saeb Erekat who died early this week in Hardtalk from the BBC World Service
Podcast: Listen to the Daily on the rise and fall and resurrection of the Taliban.
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