Featured Event November 11 – Ramifications of the US Elections for Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood, Daniel S. Hamilton, Stefan Meister, Cristina Gerasimov, Milan Nič, Woodrow Wilson Center/DGAP
Must-Reads Health – Coronavirus: German company BioNTech says its vaccine is 90% effective, Deutsche Welle Health – Preparing for the Crises After COVID-19, Lars Brozus, SWP US – America Won, Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic US – The Biden Era Begins, David Remnick, New Yorker US – She Did It, Jemele Hill, The Atlantic US – Tuesday proved that racial groups don’t vote as a bloc — with one exception, Theodore Johnson, Washington Post US – The Pluralism Within, Vivek Ramaswamy, National Review US – Repairing the World, Richard Haass Foreign Affairs EU/Belarus – European Union slaps sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, AP/NBC Belarus – OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on Alleged Human Rights Violations related to the Presidential Elections of 9 August 2020 in Belarus, OSCE France – French battle against Islamist ‘separatism’ is at odds with commitment to liberty, Olivier Roy, Financial Times
Must-Reads US – How to Bring American Diplomacy Back from the Brink, Joaquin Castro, Foreign Affairs US – Trump Killed the Pax Americana, Paul Krugman, The New York Times US – A List of Specific, Actionable Foreign Policy Ideas for the Next President, Madiha Afzal et al., Brookings US/Western Balkans – How Trump Lost the Balkans, Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Policy US/Afghanistan – Afghanistan: The Peace Negotiations Have Become an Extension of War by Other Means, Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS NATO – NATO’s Response to Covid-19: Lessons for Resilience and Readiness, Giovanna De Maio, Brookings Digital – The Internet of Bodies: Opportunities, Risks, and Governance, Mary Lee, Benjamin Boudreaux, Ritika Chaturvedi, Sasha Romanosky, Bryce Downing, RAND Digital/Central and Eastern Europe – Digitalization in Central and Eastern Europe: Building Regional Cooperation, Paula J. Dobriansky, Maciej Witucki, Jörn Fleck, and Eileen Kannengeiser, Atlantic Council Digital/EU– When Sovereignty Leads and Cyber Law Follows, Paul Timmers, Encompass EU/Defense – EU seals accord to let third countries into future joint military projects, Alexandra Brzozowski, Euractiv EU – EU Strategic Autonomy: A Reality Check for Europe’s Global Agenda, Niklas Helwig, Finnish Institute of International Affairs Europe – Geopolitical Europe in times of Covid-19, Mark Leonard, Europe’s Futures Moldova – Transatlantic Take 360: Moldova’s Pivotal Presidential Election, Jonathan Katz, GMF Kosovo/Serbia – Twin Crises: Political Dysfunction in the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, Engjellushe Morina, European Council on Foreign Relations Russia – The Geopoliticization of Russian Politics, Stefan Meister, Internationale Politik Quarterly Russia/South Caucasus – Russia on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Calculated Neutrality, Katarzyna Chawrylo, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)