US/Russia/China - Trump orders staff to prepare arms control push with Russia and China, Paul Sonne and John Hudson, Washington Post Nuclear - Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials Worldwide, Matthew Bunn, Nickolas Roth and William H. Tobey, Belfer Center Russia - Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options, RAND Russia/US/Central Asia - Envisioning Opportunities for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in and with Central Asia, Marlene Laruelle and Andrey Kortunov, Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations, Davis Center, Harvard University France/Germany - Emmanuel Macron’s Merkel Strategy Hasn’t Worked, Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg Health/US - Disinformation is the new barrier to measles vaccines, and it's deadly: Rosalynn Carter, USA Today Health/Europe - Europe’s populist contagion. Europe is failing to counter confusion and distrust of vaccines, Katie Jennings, Politico Western Balkans - Berlin Summit Fails to Restart Stalled Kosovo-Serbia Talks, Balkan Insight Western Balkans - EU dithering leaves Western Balkans prey to other suitors, Erwan Fouéré and Steven Blockmans, CEPS Serbia/Kosovo - The Hypnotist: Aleksandar Vucic, John Bolton and the return of the past, European Stability Initiative US/Economic Coercion - Economic Dominance, Financial Technology, and the Future of U.S. Economic Coercion, Peter E. Harrell and Elizabeth Rosenberg, CNAS US/Iran/Venezuela - Sanctions Can’t Spark Regime Change, David Cohen and Zoe Weinberg, Foreign Affairs https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-04-29/sanctions-cant-spark-regime-change EU - Refocus the European Union: Planet, Lifetime, Technology, Heather Grabbe and Tomáš Valášek, editors, Carnegie Europe/Open Society Institute