Must-Reads
West - The Free World at 30, Roger Cohen, New York Times
US - Opening Statement of Marie L. Yovanovitch, House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Committee on Oversight and Reform
US/Turkey/Syria - Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast, David E. Sanger, New York Times
Turkey - Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan, Aykan Erdemir, Hudson Institute
US - The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy. Not Since Joe McCarthy Has the State Department Suffered Such a Devastating Blow, William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs
US - Goodbye, America. Goodbye, Freedom Man, Bret Stephens, New York Times
US/Economy - Economic Statecraft in the Age of Trump, Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Quarterly
Poland - Poland’s PiS wins election, but its grip on power is weakened, Jan Cienski and Zosia Wanat, Politico
Poland - A Tale of Two Polands, Dariusz Kalan, Foreign Policy
EU/Trade - EU builds anti-Trump trade bazooka, Jakob Hanke, Politico
EU/Western Balkans - Let’s move forward in the western Balkans, Tomáš Petříček, Péter Szijjártó, Jacek Czaputowicz and Miroslav Lajcák, Politico
Spain - Spanish Supreme Court sentences Catalan separatists to prison, sparking protests, Pamela Rolfe and James McAuley, Washington Post
Spain/Portugal - The Iberian Divide, Guy Hedgecoe, Berlin Policy Journal
Russia/Digital - Russia cyber aggression fuels tensions with west, Michael Imeson, Financial Times
Russia/Japan - Why Japanese Investment in Russian LNG Is an Isolated Deal, James Brown, Carnegie Moscow Center