Transatlantic Must-Reads 1/28/2019

January 28th, 2019
Afghanistan, Balkans, China, Cyprus, Economy, Energy, Europe, EU, Germany, Globalization, Malta, Money Laundering, Russia, Syria, Trade, UK, US, Venezuela

Must-Reads

Europe - Fight for Europe – or the wreckers will destroy it, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Elfriede Jelinek, Adam Michnik, Orhan Pamuk and 24 others, The Guardian
Europe - Why I am a European Patriot, Roger Cohen, New York Times
Europe/Syria - What Europe should do about Syria, Julien Barnes-Dacey, European Council on Foreign Relations
EU/Trade - Can the EU Thrive in an Era of Power-Based Trade? Peter Rashish, ESharp
US/China/Trade - The U.S.-China Trade War Isn’t Going Anywhere, Michael Schuman, The Atlantic
Energy/US - Energy Outlook 2019, Energy Information Agency
Energy/Germany - Germany set to phase out coal-fired power stations by 2038, Tobias Buck, Financial Times
Germany/Economy - Calling time, The Economist
Globalization - Five Myths About Globalization, Steven A. Altman, Washington Post
Globalization - The global list, The Economist
UK/EU - Fog in the Channel, The Economist
UK/Europe/US - Brexit will make the U.S. and Europe less safe, James Stavridis, Bloomberg
US/Afghanistan - U.S. and Taliban Agree in Principle to Peace Framework, Envoy Says, Mujib Mashal, New York Times
US - Trump’s foreign policy: Two years of living dangerously, Ian Bond, Centre for European Reform
US/Russia - US lifts sanctions on Deripaska-controlled companies, David Sheppard and Neil Hume, Financial Times
Russia - Russia’s Military Policy in the Post-Soviet Space: Aims, Instruments and Perspectives, Margarete Klein, SWP
Venezuela - Venezuela’s Presidential Crisis and the Transition to Democracy, José Ignacio Hernández G., Center for Strategic & International Studies
Cyprus/Malta/Money Laundering - Treasure islands, The Economist
Balkans - Putin’s Next Playground or the E.U.’s Last Moral Stand? Ivan Krastev, New York Times

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Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor, at Johns Hopkins University SAIS