Must-Reads US – Meet the Biden-Harris agency review teams, Biden-Harris Transition US – Revitalizing the State Department and American Diplomacy, Uzra S. Zeya and Jon Finer, CFR US – Setting New U.S. Strategic Priorities for a Post-Trump World, Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS US – Biden’s foreign policy: American renaissance or creative diplomacy? Amelia Hadfield and Christian Turner, Encompass US/Europe – Europe Can't Blame Donald Trump Anymore, Tom McTague, The Atlantic US/Germany – The United States’ Reassessment of its Global Role is Creating a Strategic Crisis for Germany, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff US/EU – Going Transatlantic: The EU’S Lean Walk Towards Strategic Relevance, Nicoletta Pirozzi, Istituto Affari Internazionali US/EU/Trade – EU keeps its shield up in the US trade war, Barbara Moens and Jakob Hanke Vela, Politico EU – Eu budget deal: What you need to know, Lili Bayer, Politico EU/Digital – The Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the New Competition Tool, Meredith Broadbent, CSIS EU/Russia/Belarus – EU-Russia relations and the crisis in Belarus: toward a more “geopolitical” Europe? Zachary Paikin, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique Nuclear/NATO/UN – Living With the Nuclear Prohibition Treaty: First, Do No Harm, George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment UK/EU – The shape of the Irish Sea border is becoming clear, Owen Polley, CapX South Caucasus – Europe Stands by as Borders are Redrawn by Nagorno-Karabakh Ceasefire, Ben Judah, Politico Europe/Middle East – Rethinking Governance: The Case for European Engagement With Non-State Armed Groups, ECFR Ukraine – Misrule of Law: Ukraine’s Constitutional Crisis, Andrew Wilson, ECFR
Must-Reads US – How to Bring American Diplomacy Back from the Brink, Joaquin Castro, Foreign Affairs US – Trump Killed the Pax Americana, Paul Krugman, The New York Times US – A List of Specific, Actionable Foreign Policy Ideas for the Next President, Madiha Afzal et al., Brookings US/Western Balkans – How Trump Lost the Balkans, Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Policy US/Afghanistan – Afghanistan: The Peace Negotiations Have Become an Extension of War by Other Means, Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS NATO – NATO’s Response to Covid-19: Lessons for Resilience and Readiness, Giovanna De Maio, Brookings Digital – The Internet of Bodies: Opportunities, Risks, and Governance, Mary Lee, Benjamin Boudreaux, Ritika Chaturvedi, Sasha Romanosky, Bryce Downing, RAND Digital/Central and Eastern Europe – Digitalization in Central and Eastern Europe: Building Regional Cooperation, Paula J. Dobriansky, Maciej Witucki, Jörn Fleck, and Eileen Kannengeiser, Atlantic Council Digital/EU– When Sovereignty Leads and Cyber Law Follows, Paul Timmers, Encompass EU/Defense – EU seals accord to let third countries into future joint military projects, Alexandra Brzozowski, Euractiv EU – EU Strategic Autonomy: A Reality Check for Europe’s Global Agenda, Niklas Helwig, Finnish Institute of International Affairs Europe – Geopolitical Europe in times of Covid-19, Mark Leonard, Europe’s Futures Moldova – Transatlantic Take 360: Moldova’s Pivotal Presidential Election, Jonathan Katz, GMF Kosovo/Serbia – Twin Crises: Political Dysfunction in the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, Engjellushe Morina, European Council on Foreign Relations Russia – The Geopoliticization of Russian Politics, Stefan Meister, Internationale Politik Quarterly Russia/South Caucasus – Russia on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Calculated Neutrality, Katarzyna Chawrylo, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)