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Inside, Outside, Upside Down? Non-Arctic States in Emerging Arctic Security Discourses, Marc Lanteigne, in Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, editors, Jason Moyer, associate editor, The Arctic and World Order, Johns Hopkins SAIS/Brookings Institution Press   

Must-Reads 
US/Trade – To Build Back Better, Biden Needs to Fix Trade, Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs  
US/Sanctions – How Washington’s Nord Stream strategy could backfire, Elisabeth Braw, Politico  
US/EU/Digital – Time for a U.S.–EU digital alliance, Tom Wheeler, Brookings  
Digital – A new architecture: Chipmaking is being redesigned. The effects will be far-reaching, The Economist 
Nuclear – The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions, Congressional Research Service
Nuclear – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Becomes International Law, Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch 
Health/EU – The EU should stop ignoring the vaccine race and try and win it, The Economist  
EU/China/US – Europe’s China Deal: How Not to Work with the Biden Administration, Andrew Small, European Council on Foreign Relations 
EU/China – Wins and Losses in the EU-China Investment Agreement (CAI), Francois Godement, Institut Montaigne 
EU/UK – The Brexit agreement: An economic guide for the perplexed, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, PIIE  
Germany – Why a ‘Black-Green’ German Government Could Finally Create a Coherent Defence Policy, Ulrike Esther Franke, European Council on Foreign Relations 
Italy – Italy’s Mediterranean Belt and Road, Michaël Tanchum and Dimitar Bechev, Foreign Policy