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UkraineAlert
UkraineAlert is a comprehensive online publication that provides regular news and analysis on developments in Ukraine’s politics, economy, civil society, and culture, with commentary drawn from a wide-array of thought-leaders, politicians, experts, and activists from Ukraine and the global community.
MENASource
The MENASource blog follows the transitions in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, as well as other political and economic changes throughout the region. MENASource provides a platform for diverse perspectives from the US, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa on major issues that are at stake in the post-Arab Spring era.
SyriaSource
SyriaSource, a project of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, amplifies Syrian voices, alongside Atlantic Council researchers and fellows, to showcase issues most pertinent to Syrians. The blog features news and analysis directly from Syrian sources as well as international experts.
IranSource
IranSource provides a holistic look at Iran’s internal dynamics, global and regional policies, and posture through unique analysis of current events and long-term, strategic issues related to Iran.
EnergySource
EnergySource provides analysis and insight on key energy issues, making sense of key energy trends and their implications for geopolitics, geoeconomics, policy, and markets.
AfricaSource
AfricaSource provides in-depth analysis and incisive commentary by the Africa Center’s experts on the people and events shaping the present and future of the world’s most dynamic regions.
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Latest from across our blogs
Sat, Oct 19, 2019
Brexit: Another day, another crisis
In a day that has created as much uncertainty as any other in the four-year long saga of Britain’s proposed exit from the EU, Johnson actually managed to trigger not one but two constitutional crises.
New Atlanticist by John M. Roberts
Fri, Oct 18, 2019
Richard Stengel on disinformation and the threat to democracy
Disinformation—both foreign and domestic—is a catalytic harm that acts to magnify existing societal vulnerabilities. Forging digital resilience is an urgent priority—because, as Stengel said, disinformation is “an attack on our very democracy. And Americans need to be aware of it.”
New Atlanticist by Zarine Kharazian
Fri, Oct 18, 2019
Turkey’s “pause” in Syria: Will the US tourniquet stop the bleeding?
Turkey has agreed to pause its “Operation Peace Spring” in northeastern Syria for five days so that the United States can accomplish, through diplomatic means, Ankara’s military objective: the creation of a Turkish-dominated, Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG)-free “safe zone” twenty miles into Syria. If the pause takes hold one may hope that a burgeoning […]
SyriaSource by Frederic C. Hof
Fri, Oct 18, 2019
Ratified USMCA key to unlocking Mexican growth
The United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) will “clearly be an incredible boost” to the Mexican economy at a time when global trade uncertainty threatens to dampen growth prospects around the world, Mexican Secretary of Finance Arturo Herrera said at the Atlantic Council on October 18.
New Atlanticist by David A. Wemer
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
Digital Forensic Research Lab explores disinformation campaigns in the Middle East
Online information and disinformation has been playing a pivotal role in shaping public opinion throughout the Middle East and North Africa for over a decade. In the past week alone, Atlantic Council researchers with the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) have published four articles examining the origins of various MENA-based disinformation campaigns and the tell-tale […]
MENASource by MENASource
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
The seasoning of President Zelenskyy
We are beyond halfway through October, and there’s still no certainty whether the much awaited and long-delayed summit of the Normandy Four states (Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France) will take place. The summit is meant to jump start the moribund Minsk process for achieving peace in Ukraine’s east. On October 17, the German and French […]
UkraineAlert by Bohdan Nahaylo
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
The ‘principle of solidarity’: OPAL, Nord Stream, and the shadow over Gazprom
The OPAL judgment in Case T-883/16 “Republic of Poland v. European Commission” from the EU General Court will undermine Gazprom’s market dominance in Central and Eastern Europe.
EnergySource by Alan Riley
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
Impact of the European Court of Justice’s Opal decision
The recent decision by the European Court of Justice to limit Gazprom’s use of Opal, an onshore pipeline in Germany, has wide-reaching implications for Gazprom’s use of both Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, as well as Gazprom’s reliance on Ukraine for gas transit to Europe.
EnergySource by Daniel D. Stein
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
Protests in Iraq may unseat the government
The sudden outbreak of protests in Iraq on October 1 was part of a pattern the country has witnessed in recent years. Understanding this context as well as the grievances driving the protestors helps explain the latest unrest. As it stands now, Iraq is in precarious moment in which bold, concrete action from the government […]
MENASource by Rend al-Rahim
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
Boris’s Brexit: A done deal?
The prime minister has less than forty-eight hours to forge a coalition that can secure the necessary initial approval of the deal—and Britain’s fractured politics means the outcome of the vote is far from certain.
New Atlanticist by John M. Roberts