ECFR’s World in 30 minutes: Germany and the US

Mark Leonard talks to Jeremy Shapiro and Nicu Popescu about changing transatlantic relations. How serious are the tensions between Germany and the US after the recent spying scandal? And can the EU and the US still co-operate on issues in Ukraine and the Middle East?

Bookshelf

A history of Russia – Boris Akunin (in Russian only)
The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914 – Christopher Clark
Hard choices – Hillary Clinton
GRU: Fifty years of history, twenty years of war – Sergey Kozlov (in Russian only)
Thinking in time: the uses of history for decision-makers – Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
1918 versus 1938: how anniversaries make history – Ivan Krastev