#Highlights of the week: 1⃣Robust resilience is essential to #NATO’s collective security & defence. The NATO Resilience Symposium took place in Latvia🇱🇻 last week & it focused on resilience in the age of disruption: act.nato.int/articles/nato-… #WeAreNATO

What are some early signals of change potentially hinting at larger trends for global development? Check out this first of its kind UN Development effort. undp.org/future-develop…

"Did the science really change? Or was there simply a shift in how a handful of influential journalists interpreted it?" A provocative read from Harper's Magazine about how we cover climate change. harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

If you listen to one thing today...make it this - Ada Limón's poem for NASA's new mission to Jupiter's Europa. "We too are made of water (...) We too are made of wonders."

"For all the intermittent hype around “rising India” or “rising Africa,” systemic dynamics—deindustrialization, ecological dis­ruption, demographic headwinds—will pose severe challenges to eco­nomic development over the coming decades. " Must read article. americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/11/the-lo…

Easiest way to make any (this?) woman happy: let her sit in a Eurofighter Typhoon. Great perk of my Atlantic Council job to visit MK base and learn more about 🇷🇴 & allied force posture & presence at the Black Sea.

This is an excellent piece from Ricardo Borges de Castro 🇺🇦 🟧 about how we can move the needle on foresight. The need to make the discipline much more responsive and action-oriented is especially well taken.

If you read one thing today, make it this excellent new Scowcroft Center ACGlobalChina report from John Culver & Sarah Kirchberger on what lessons 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺 are learning from the 🇷🇺 war in 🇺🇦 and their application in a conflict over 🇹🇼. atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-resea…

The #NATO Summit started one week ago today. Still processing the implications of this historic event for the Alliance, 🇺🇦 & 🌍? Do revisit the excellent expert round-up put together by Atlantic Council including some thoughts from yours truly. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

Global conflict update: #Russia & #Ethiopia: most deadly state-based conflict-years recorded post 1989. Trend of increased conflict between states in last decade, inc. major powers supporting opposite sides in intrastate conflict. PRIO journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

A very welcome even if at times overly critical review of crisis management. There is now room for out-of-the-box thinking about the future of crisis management. What could crisis management look like in the era and context of strategic competition? 1/4

And I also never read New Yorker articles about writing and post them on Twitter instead of actually writing the thing I am supposed to. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

Most anything Paul Poast writes is insightful, but this piece is particularly helpful in putting things into perspective, particularly in considering multipolarity as a potential underlying cause of present challenges.

The NATO Summit madness begins tomorrow. In case your reading list isn't long enough already, RAND has some fantastic pieces out (with more to come) on key issues on the summit agenda. Check out what Bruce McClintock and I have to say about NATO and the final frontier.

My thoughts on yesterday's Romanian🇷🇴 election. The result certifies Romanians want to be firmly anchored in Europe, but the new president will have a difficult mandate ahead.

Hope and patience. 🇷🇴 My analysis for Atlantic Council on the recent Romanian election's implications.