Must-Reads
Climate/EU - The EU’s Much-Flaunted Climate Leadership is Full of Loopholes, Olivia Lazard, Carnegie Endowment
Climate/US - Barriers to achieving US climate goals are more political than technical, Samantha Gross, Brookings
UK - Scottish independence will impact the UK’s global role, Alistair Burnett, Kirsty Hughes and Philip Rycroft, Chatham House
US/Human Rights - Practice What You Preach: Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home, John Shattuck and Kathryn Sikkink, Foreign Affairs
EU/Trade - Transparency in EU trade policy: a comprehensive assessment of current achievements, Axel Marx and Guillaume Van der Loo, Politics and Governance
EU/Trade - The EU’s new trade strategy: Gearing up for competition over values, Okko-Pekka Salmimies and Saila Turtiainen, Finnish Institute of International Affairs   
NATO - NATO’s Strategic Concept Should Initiate a New Partnership Policy, Henrik Larsen, Internationale Politik Quarterly
Eastern Europe - Joint Declaration of the Heads of State, Bucharest 9 Meeting
Afghanistan - Afghanistan: What now to avoid disaster? James Cunningham, Hugo Llorens, Ronald E. Neumann, Richard Olson and Earl Anthony Wayne, Atlantic Council
EU/Russia - Enough warnings: Europe must act on Russian killings, Nicolas Tenzer, Politico