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Arctic Exceptionalisms, P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean, 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 
Global/Nationalism – The Nationalist International Is Playing the Long Game, Michael Thumann, Internationale Politik Quarterly 
US/France – France Knows How This Ends, James McAuley, The Atlantic   
US/Europe – The crisis of American power: How Europeans see Biden’s America, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, ECFR 
US/Europe/Iran – A new transatlantic consensus on Iran, Luigi Scazzieri, Centre for European Reform 
US/Germany – Policing the police: Germany’s lessons for the U.S., Joseph P. Williams, U.S. News & World Report 
Germany – Merkel Minus Angela, Josef Joffe, Project Syndicate 
Germany – Laschet’s World, Henning Hoff, Internationale Politik Quarterly  
Germany/Europe – We’re not ready for Europe after Merkel, Mujtaba Rahman, Politico 
Germany/Health – Can We Stop a Super Coronavirus? Matthias Bartsch et al., Der Spiegel  
Health/EU/Finland – An abrupt awakening to the realities of a pandemic: Learning lessons from the onset of Covid-19 in the EU and Finland, Mika Aaltola, Johanna Ketola, Aada Peltonen, and Karoliina Vaakanainen, Finnish Institute of International Affairs   
Digital – What the European DSA and DMA proposals mean for online platforms, Aline Blankertz and Julian Jaursch, Brookings  
EU/France/Digital – Brussels eclipsed as EU countries roll out their own tech rules, Laura Kayali and Mark Scott, Politico 
France – France issues charter for imams meant to fight ‘political Islam’, Pierre-Paul Bermingham, Politico 
EU/UK – A Brexit lesson: EU’s benefits, largely invisible, hurt to lose, John Lichfield, Politico   
UK – Britain’s Postcolonial Crisis: The Denial of Racism in Little England, Ali Meghji, Europe Now Journal 
Defense/Resilience – A Framework for Cross-Domain Strategies Against Hybrid Threats, Tim Sweijs, Samuel Zilincik, Frank Bekkers & Rick Meessen, Hague Centre for Strategic Studies 
Lithuania/US – US Army in Lithuania: a new outpost on the eastern flank, Piotr Szymański, OSW Institute of Eastern Studies