Must-Reads Global - Global Catastrophic Risks 2021: Navigating the Complex Intersections, Global Challenges Foundation UN - Ten Challenges for the UN in 2021-2022, International Crisis Group US - Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill, Jim Tankersley, New York Times US - American Power After Afghanistan, Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs US/Asia/Europe - The Sharp U.S. Pivot to Asia Is Throwing Europe Off Balance, Steven Erlanger, New York Times US/Asia/Europe - The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Beginning to Fall, Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy US/NATO/Russia - Findings: U.S., NATO, and Russia: The Military Incidents Project, Emma Claire Foley, Global Zero Russia - Welcome to Russia’s New Reality, Stephan Meister, Internationale Politik Quarterly Russia/China/Mediterranean - A Limited Partnership: Russia-China Relations in the Mediterranean, Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, David Shullman, and Gibbs McKinley, CNAS Germany - Germany should show it has a strategy - on anything, John Kornblum, OMFIF