Finland - Finland’s Social Democrats win close election victory, Charlie Duxbury, Politico
Nuclear - Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation: The doctrine of mutual assured destruction is obsolete in the post-Cold War era, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, Wall Street Journal
US - Trump’s Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem, Robert Blackwill, Council on Foreign Relations
US - Can We Stop Pretending Now? The Trump Era as an Occasion for Truth Telling, Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch
US/Global - New Voices in Grand Strategy, Emma Ashford, Hal Brands, Jasen J. Castillo, Kate Kizer,  Rebecca Friedman Lissner, Jeremy Shapiro,  and Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinso, CNAS
EU - A Machiavellian moment, The Economist
EU/US/Trade - Brussels links US trade talks to demands on steel, car tariffs, Hans von der Burchard and Maxime Schlee, Politico
EU/US/Trade - EU eyes tariffs on $12bn US exports in Boeing-Airbus trade row, Jim Brunsden, Financial Times
US/Middle East - The “Deal of the Century” for Israel-Palestine, Muriel Asseburg, SWP
Libya - Libya is Our Regime Change Nightmare, Daniel Larison, American Conservative
Europe/Middle East - Europe must take a stand in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Financial Times
Energy - Poland wins €215m EU grant for gas link to Norway, Frédéric Simon, EU Observer
UK/Ireland/EU - The Good Friday agreement is under threat – but it’s key to resolving Brexit, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, The Guardian
Ukraine - The Ukrainian elite is preparing for Poroshenko’s election defeat, Konstantin Skorkin, Carnegie Moscow Center