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