Featured Event
Tuesday, April 9, 900-1015 US Eastern/1500-1615 CET/2100-2215 Nanjing
Virtual Book Release for
The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption, Daniel S. Hamilton and Joe Renouard, eds., featuring remarks by co-authors Alice García-Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Natixis; and Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow, SAIS Faculty Research Seminar.
 
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Must Reads
Global - The Trouble With “the Global South”: What the West Gets Wrong About the Rest, Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs
Middle East - The Gaza crisis: Mapping the Middle East’s shifting battle lines, Julien Barnes-Dacey, Cinzia Bianco, Hugh Lovatt, ECFR
Turkey - Turkey’s opposition party sweeps to local elections victory in snub to Erdoğan, Ruth Michaelson and Ayça Aldatmaz, The Guardian
US/EU/Trade/Technology - Joint Statement EU-US Trade and Technology Council of 4-5 April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium
US/Europe/Energy - Europe’s new energy risk: Trading Russia for America, Gabriel Gavin, Politico
US/Europe/Nuclear - Can Europe Still Count on America’s Nuclear Umbrella? Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal
US/Ukraine - Trump’s anti-Ukraine view dates to the 1930s. America rejected it then. Will we now? Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Russia/Digital - Explaining The Rise of Telegram, Olga Logunova, Riddle
Russia/Europe - Putin’s Europe: Russian Influence in European Democracy, Milosz Hodun and Francesco Cappelletti, eds, European Liberal Forum/Project:Polska
NATO - The Tag NATO Transatlantic Compact 2024, Julian Lindley-French, et al., Alpen Group
NATO - On 75th Anniversary, NATO is at a serious crossroads, Robert E. Hunter, Responsible Statecraft
NATO - NATO at 75: The Alliance’s future lies in Ukraine’s victory against Russia, Ian Brzezinski
Defense/Northern Europe - Western Military Capability in Northern Europe 2023. Part 1: National Capabilities, Krister Pallin, et al., Swedish Defence Research Agency
Trade - 2024 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, US Trade Representative
Trade - On the importance of trade openness, Lucian Cernat, ECIPE
Germany/Economy - Germany’s Real Challenges are Aging, Underinvestment, and Too Much Red Tape, Kevin Fletcher, Harri Kemp, and Galen Sher, IMF
Bulgaria/Romania/EU - Bulgaria, Romania partially join EU's visa-free Schengen zone, France 24
Belarus - Getting Off the Back Foot: Guiding Principles for a Proactive Western Strategy on Belarus, Artyom Shraibman, Carnegie Endowment
 
Book Shelf
War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World, Hal Brands, ed, Johns Hopkins University Press