Featured Book 
The Arctic and World Order, Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate editor, Johns Hopkins SAIS/Brookings Institution Press  

Must-Reads 
EU – What European foreign policy in times of COVID-19? Josep Borrell, Groupe d ’études géopolitiques 
EU/Hungary/Poland – The Costs of Merkel’s Surrender to Hungarian and Polish Extortion, George Soros, Project Syndicate 
EU/Health – Relaunch or disintegration? What Covid-19 means for the future of Europe, Michael Leigh, LSE 
EU/Human Rights – The New EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: Breakthrough or Distraction? Richard Youngs, Carnegie Europe   
EU/UK – Why the World Should Root for the EU in Brexit Talks, Edward Alden, Foreign Policy 
Germany – Who Will Succeed Merkel? Josef Joffe, Project Syndicate 
US – Al Gore: Where I Find Hope, Al Gore, New York Times  
US/Intelligence – Crisis of Confidence: How Biden Can Restore Faith in U.S. Spy Agencies, Foreign Affairs 
US/Russia – Managing US sanctions toward Russia, Steven Pifer, Brookings  
US/Russia – How to Safely Manage U.S.-Russian Great-Power Competition, Dmitri Trenin and Thomas Graham, Carnegie Moscow   
China – China pulls back from the world: rethinking Xi’s ‘project of the century’, James Kynge and Jonathan Wheatley, Financial Times 
China/NATO – China's Rise Can Unite NATO, Henrik Larsen, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Armenia – Is Armenia’s Democracy on Borrowed Time? Anna Ohanyan, Carnegie Endowment 
OSCE – Strengthening the OSCE’s Role in Election System Monitoring, Tyson Barker, DGAP  
Nuclear – Revamping Nuclear Arms Control: Five Near-Term Proposals, James M. Acton, Thomas MacDonald, Pranay Vaddi, Carnegie Endowment