Transatlantic Must-Reads 12/19/2018

December 19th, 2018
Central Europe, Development, Digital, Dollar, Economy, Emissions, Energy, EU, Euro, France, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, North Korea, Russia, Switzerland, UK, US

Must-Reads

US/Development - A U.S. multilateral aid review, Anthony F. Pipa, Brina Seidel and Caroline Conroy, Brookings Institution
Dollar - The Future of the Dollar—and Its Role in Financial Diplomacy, Christopher Smart, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Euro - The euro as an international currency, Francesco Papadia and Konstantinos Efstathiou, Bruegel
Hungary - Hungary’s Sudden Protests Punch a Hole in Orbán’s Legitimization Narrative, Daniel Hegedüs, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Energy - Iran oil exports: 8 waivers and the OPEC meeting, Sara Vakhshouri, European Council on Foreign Relations
Switzerland/Iran - Switzerland prepares to launch Iran payments channel, Michael Peel, Ralph Atkins, and Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Financial Times
EU/Emissions - Five myths about an EU ETS carbon price floor, Christian Flachsland, Michael Pahle, Dallas Burtraw Ottmar Edenhofer, Milan Elkerbout, Carolyn Fischer Oliver Tietjen and Lars Zetterberg, CEPS
EU/Economy - Overestimating the EU Economy, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project Syndicate
Russia - The Russian Paradox, Edward Lucas, CEPA
Russia/US - The Reset That Wasn’t: The Permanent Crisis of U.S.-Russia Relations, Robert E. Hamilton, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Russia/US - How Russia Hacked U.S. Politics With Instagram Marketing, Elias Groll, Foreign Policy
US/North Korea - U.S. Sanctions North Korean Officials for Human Rights Violations—How Significant? Robert R. King, Center for Strategic & International Studies
France/EU - France's Deficit Tests the Flexibility of the EU's Fiscal Rules, Jérémie Cohen-Setton and Álvaro Leandro, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Central Europe - Divided at the centre: Germany, Poland, and the troubles of the Trump era, Piotr Buras and Josef Janning, European Council on Foreign Relations
Latvia - Latvia’s controlled discontents, Karlis Bukovskis, European Council on Foreign Relations
UK/EU - EU’s hard Brexit is going to hurt — a lot, David M. Herszenhorn, Politico
Digital - The GPS Wars Are Here, Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Policy

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