Must-Reads
EU/Standards - The parable of the plug, The Economist
EU/Digital - Europe fit for the digital age: Towards a truly European digital society, Draft European Commission Communication
Digital/China/Eurasia - The future stage: The digital side of the Belt and Road Initiative is growing, The Economist
US - The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President: How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election, McKay coppins, The Atlantic
US/Russia - Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 3: U.S. Government Response to Russian Activities, Report of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
US/Defense - Getting to Less? The Minimal Exposure Strategy, Kathleen H. Hicks, Joseph P. Federici, Seamus P. Daniels, Rhys McCormick, Lindsey Sheppard, Center for Strategic & International Studies
US/UK/Trade - Let the Trans-Atlantic Trading Begin, Mike Gallagher, Wall Street Journal
Serbia/China - Serbia’s embrace of Chinese FDI raises questions of transparency, Sebastian Shehadi and Valerie Hopkins, Financial Times
Ukraine - Zelensky Must Not Miss His Chance to Change Ukraine, Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council
Germany - The New German Math, Stephen F. Szabo, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Global - Dictators in Trouble, Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs
Russia - Collapsing the Russian Tripod, Neil Barnett, Andrew Foxall, The American Interest
Belarus/Russia - Belarus: Stalemate With Russia and Rapprochement With the West, Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation
Kosovo - Kosovo: a protest movement comes to power, Marta Szpala, OSW