Cat’s daily selection of top links FromOverHere #002

Here are today’s hot links on strategy and international affairs:

1.Promoting trade:  Seven practical priorities for trade, critical to US growth.  Can we have a similar discussion in the UK/EU?

2. Rise of smart cities: what could they look like?

3. The Arab Spring after Libya:  A pensive and measured summary of Libya and the Arab Spring post ‘victory’ – read together with a pretty gloomy though not unexpected view on Egypt.

4. Views from Turkey:  about the UK’s subtle diplomacy being in short-supply over Libya & being influenced by Sarkozy’s insecurities over Erdogan

5. ‘Germany has no position yet, as usual’: Westerwalle’s failings as foreign minister and German underperformance at the UN continues to angst German commentators.

6. China-Africa trade partnership for development:  An overview of seven case-studies from the AfDB