Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage with some categories for helpful reading…
Global Economy
- Cyprus and EU avert financial catastrophe but EU looks like “gang that can’t shoot straight”
- Krugman recommends Cyprus exit from the Euro
Energy and the Environment
- Wildlife returns to Guyana
- CFR hosts joint event with Conservation International on the mainstreaming of environmental security
- Trevor Houser flags EIA report on U.S. energy consumption
- John Romankiewicz questions whether shale gas is actually changing the country’s energy trajectory all that much
Africa
- Central African Republic experiences a coup (only #19 on Jay Ulfelder’s list of places most likely to have a coup)
- China is not the largest Asian investor in Africa
- Roy Robins questions why South Africa is included in the BRICS
U.S. Foreign Policy
- President Obama gives terrific speech in Jerusalem challenging Israel and Palestine to have some vision
- Micah Zenko tweet dismisses as “Obama Doctrine: Inspirational speech sprinkled with hard-truths in lieu of actual policy changes. Repeat as needed”
- Steve Walt dumps on Obama for seemingly being a constructivist)
- Provocative graphic on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan
- New reports question Esquire account of Bin Laden’s death; what does that mean for our “historical documents” like Zero Dark Thirty?
- Charles Kenny lambastes U.S. foreign assistance for being entirely too self-serving
- Peggy Noonan writes something smart about how Iraq destroyed the GOP brand on national security
Sundry
- U.S. men win epic World Cup qualifier in the snow in Denver and then heroically draw Mexico 0-0 in Estadio Azteca where the hosts had a record of 68-1-6
- Remarkable debut from new Irish band Little Green Cars
Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.
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