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New Atlanticist is the Atlantic Council’s public policy blog. It seeks to provide expert analysis, accessible to a broad readership, on the most pressing issues facing the transatlantic community.
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.
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, 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 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 provides analysis and insight on key energy issues, making sense of key energy trends and their implications for geopolitics, geoeconomics, policy, and markets.
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.
Econographics help visualize and contextualize the most important trends and developments in the global economy.
TURKEYSource provides analysis and insight on Turkey and related developments with coverage from Turkish, regional, and international experts. This blog offers timely news and commentary on key issues related to transatlantic relations, energy, business, migration, and key players.
SouthAsiaSource is the Atlantic Council’s premier publication for South Asian affairs, covering areas such as economics and trade, governance, education, climate and environmental issues, politics and diplomacy, migration, security, and other areas.
New Atlanticist
By Mercedes Sapuppo
Gershkovich embodies what Putin apparently fears: He is a journalist working to uncover the truth, to show the world for what it really is.
MENASource
By Mark N. Katz
This attack by ISIS-K may have been motivated by several grievances, including retaliation for the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
UkraineAlert
By Olivia Yanchik
The March 22 terror attack in Moscow has seriously damaged Putin’s carefully crafted public image as a strongman ruler who offers his subjects security in exchange for restrictions on their personal freedoms, writes Olivia Yanchik.
By Peter Dickinson
In addition to imaginary NATO threats and phantom fascists, Putin has now added Islamist terrorism to the expanding list of absurd excuses for the invasion of Ukraine, writes Peter Dickinson.
By Francis Shin
Establishing a permanent secretariat would enable Group of Seven members to develop more consistent strategies together.
By Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze
Beijing has developed a way to import Iranian and Russian oil while bypassing the Western financial system and shipping services.
Econographics
By Hung Tran
The politics and mathematics of reform is tougher than it appears. A simple reform matching quotas to global economic weight will not be welcomed by many countries.
By Jeffrey Cimmino
A recent report spotlights the breadth and depth of challenges to religious freedom across the globe. Washington must act.
IranSource
By Shay Khatiri
The audio leak confirms that there was, in fact, a sincere reform movement in the 1990s, and now that movement is dead.
By Doug Klain
After almost eight months of deadlock, the US Congress may finally be moving toward a political solution that can unlock desperately needed US aid for Ukraine, writes Doug Klain.