Transatlantic Must-Reads April 18, 2016

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Transatlantic Must-Reads

Monday April 18, 2016

Syria, NATO, Extremism/Assistance, US, Russia, EU, Germany, France, Italy, Balkans

Syria - The Assad Files, Ben Taub, The New Yorker
NATO - NATO's Southern Exposure, Christopher Chivvis, Foreign Affairs
Extremism/Assistance - Causes and Consequences of Violent Extremism and the Role of Foreign Assistance, Testimony of General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.) before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
US - Toward a Global Realignment, Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Interest
US - Five Evils: Multidimensional Poverty and Race in America, Richard Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, and Elizabeth Kneebone, Brookings
US – What Clinton and Sanders owe progressives, E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post
US – Trump’s Rear-View Politics, Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy
Russia - Russian High Seas Brinkmanship Echoes Cold War, Keir Giles, Chatham House
Russia - Isolation and Propaganda. The Roots and Instruments of Russia's Disinformation Campaign, Stefan Meister, Transatlantic Academy
Russia – How Putin Changed the Balance of Power Among Russia's Elite, Nikolai Petrov, The Moscow Times
EU - Euro-sceptics in Power, Nicolai von Ondarza, SWP
EU - European Disintegration: Too Much to Lose, Bettina Rudloff and Evita Schmieg, SWP Berlin
EU – Towards an EU global strategy, ISS Europa
Germany – German FM’s remarks show no desire to contain Russia, Robert Hunter, Tehran Times
Germany/France – France and Germany: Europe's stalling engine, Josef Janning and Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, ECFR
Italy – Matteo Renzi’s survival test, Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico Europe
Balkans - The Budding Autocrats of the Balkans, Besnik Pula, Foreign Policy

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