Featured Study Europe Whole and Free: Vision and Reality, Sławomir Dębski and Daniel S. Hamilton, eds. (Polish Institute of International Affairs/Transatlantic Leadership Network, 2019) The End of the Cold War: A View From the Trenches, Roderic Lyne, in Daniel S. Hamilton and Kristina Spohr, Exiting the Cold War, Entering a New World Must-Reads Communism - Life under communism: a child’s-eye view, Magdalena Miecznicka, Financial Times US/China - The United States Should Fear a Faltering China, Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs US/Middle East - Baghdadi is Dead, But ISIS Remains Emboldened Since Trump’s Drawdown, Lara Seligman, Foreign Policy US/Europe - How Europeans See America, Brendan Miller and Rubina Pabani, New York Times US/Russia - How Trump Is Helping Russia Help Trump Again, Zach Dorfman, New York Times Russia - Glitches in the Kremlin’s politics of Fear: The dynamics of repression in Russia between 2012 and 2019, Jussi Lassila, Finnish Institute of International Affairs UK/Russia - Britain and Russia are Europe’s odd couple, Gideon Rachman, Financial Times UK/Northern Ireland - Boris Johnson is trying to turn Northern Ireland into Hong Kong, The Economist EU - Europe needs to solve its collective action problem, Wolfgang Münchau, Financial Times EU/Digital - What’s driving Europe’s new aggressive stance on tech, Mark Scott, Politico EU/Balkans - Coup de grâce – Delors and squaring the circle – Norway in the Balkans, European Stability Initiative Serbia - Why Serbia Won’t Stop Playing the Russia Card Any Time Soon, Vuk Vuksanovic, Carnegie Moscow Center Central Europe/Economy - Can the good run of central Europe’s economies last? The Economist