Must-Reads Economy - After Neoliberalism: All Economics is Local, Rana Foroohar, Foreign Affairs Russia - Putin’s next escalation is coming. How should the West respond? Hans Binnendijk, Alexander Vershbow, and Julian Lindley-French, Atlantic Council Eurasia - Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Rise of the Middle Corridor as a Third Vector of Eurasian Connectivity Connecting Europe and Asia via Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey, Tuba Eldem, SWP US/Defense - 2022 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America, including the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review and the 2022 Missile Defense Review, U.S. Department of Defense US/Ukraine - Americans Support Biden's Response to the Ukraine War But Worry About Nuclear Escalation, Mark Hannah and Dina Smeltz, Time US/Europe - Europe and America don’t see eye to eye on economic security: How to avoid fragmentation, Tobias Gehrke, Wilson Center Europe/Finance/Technology - Europe’s fintech opportunity, Alessia Botta, et al., McKinsey EU - The costs of the EU’s strategic autonomy agenda – Why member states should stop ignoring them, Matthias Bauer, ECIPE Democracy - Understanding and Responding to Global Democratic Backsliding, Thomas Carothers and Benjamin Press, Carnegie Endowment