Must-Reads  
Russia/Defense –  Russian Nuclear Strategy and Conventional Inferiority, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Journal of Strategic Studies 
Russia/EU – Is Russia's Dialogue With the EU Coming to an End? Sergei Lavrov's recent comments on the EU may sound extreme, but they were a long time in the making, Fyodor Lukyanov, Vtimes/The Moscow Times
NATO – NATO’s Future: Euro-Atlantic Alliance in a Peacetime War, Alessandro Marrone and Karolina Muti, Instituto Affari Internazionali   
US/Germany/NATO – Trump’s German Withdrawal Plans ‘Extremely Expensive’, Mark Cancian, Breaking Defense
Germany/Defense – German Armed Forces Approaching Outer Space, Dominic Vogel, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)   
Germany/Migration – Inside Germany’s Successful and Broken Integration Experiment, Emily Schultheis, Foreign Policy 
EU/Biodiversity – The EU Must Fight the Collapse of Biodiversity, Olivia Lazard, Carnegie Europe   
EU/China/Trade – EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, Weinian Hu, CEPS   
EU/China – The Problems of Reciprocity, David Hutt, Internationale Politik Quarterly   
US/Asia/Middle East – Pivoting to Asia Doesn’t Get You Out of the Middle East, Jon B. Alterman, CSIS    
US/EU/Trade – The Consequences of a Trump or Biden Win for Transatlantic Trade, Elena Bryan and Peter Chase, GMF