April 2017 Monthly Goodreads

Articles

• Turkey is sliding into dictatorship (The Economist)

• What China can learn from the Pearl river delta (The Economist)

• Computer security is broken from top to bottom (The Economist)

• The perilous politics of parking (The Economist)

• China: the rural-urban divide - Ending apartheid (The Economist)

• Is Russia Testing Trump? (NY Times)

• 'They are slaughtering us like animals' (NY Times)

• Finally, a breakthrough alternative to growth economics - the doughnut (The Guardian)

• Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet (The Guardian)

• China isn't manipulating currency, Commerce Secretary Ross says (Bloomberg)

• No Taboos at Elysee as Mrs. Macron signals change in France (Bloomberg)

• Labour lawmakers said to fear losing 120 seats in UK election (Bloomberg)

• Israeli airstrikes in Syria: The International Law Analysis you won't find (Just Security)

• The Comey Firing and the Rule of Law (Just Security)

• Read ahead materials for Sally Yates hearing (Just Security)

• General election: What you need to know (BBC)

Podcasts

• Son of Chinese factory workers built this $1.5 billion startup (Bloomberg)

Talks/ Lectures

• Rethinking Development Finance (LSE)

• In Conversation with Michael Sandel: capitalism, democracy and the public good (LSE)

• Trump and China in the Asian Century (LSE)

• Global civil war: solidarity by proxy (LSE)

Videos

• How architecture changes for the Deaf (Vox)

• The war in Syria, explained (updated) (Vox)

• How did tech become so male-dominated (The Atlantic)