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New Atlanticist

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.

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

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.

Econographics

Econographics help visualize and contextualize the most important trends and developments in the global economy.

TURKEYSource

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

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.

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President Barack Obama, June 3, 2014

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2015

Obama Goes Out of His Way to Exclude Military Response to Russian Aggression in Ukraine

By Barack Obama, White House

I’ve been very clear that it would not be effective for us to engage in a military conflict with Russia on this issue, but what we can do is to continue to support Ukraine’s ability to control its own territory.

NATO Russia

MENASource

Jan 26, 2015

Top News: Twenty-Three Killed on January 25 Anniversary; FGM Doctor Convicted

By EgyptSource

Twenty-three people were killed and ninety-seven injured at protests around the country on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, the health ministry announced on Monday. Most of the deaths occurred in Cairo and Alexandria during violent clashes, with most civilians killed in Cairo’s Matariya district.

President Barack Obama, Nov. 16, 2009

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2015

Obama Points to Russian Soldiers in Ukraine

By Barack Obama, White House

We are deeply concerned about the latest break in the cease-fire and the aggression that these separatists — with Russian backing, Russian equipment, Russian financing, Russian training and Russian troops — are conducting.

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Jan 26, 2015

Top News: Twenty-three Dead, ninety-seven Injured on January 25 Anniversary

By MENASource

Twenty-three people were killed and ninety-seven injured at protests around the country on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, the health ministry announced on Monday. Most of the deaths occurred in Cairo and Alexandria during violent clashes, with most civilians killed in Cairo’s Matariya district.

MENASource

Jan 26, 2015

New Saudi King, Same Old Kingdom

By MENASource

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s passing last Friday marked the beginning of King Salman Al Saud’s reign in Saudi Arabia, sparking questions surrounding the future of Saudi policy inside and outside the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia

MENASource

Jan 26, 2015

EconSource: Jobless Arab Youth to Hit 50 Million by 2020

By EconSource

The number of unemployed youth in the Arab world is expected to reach 50 million by 2020, heightening concern about further unrest in the region, with disgruntled youth seen as increasingly vulnerable to recruitment by militant groups. According to a recent report, subdued economic growth of only 2.6 percent in the region pushed the number […]

Trade in Action

Jan 26, 2015

Missing the Mark: TTIP Negotiators Must Stop Putting Form over Function

By Global Business & Economics Program

 President Obama first introduced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in a State of the Union speech two years ago. Although policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic agree that TTIP would improve the economy, create jobs, and help small and medium-sized enterprises expand exports while increasing consumers’ choices, negotiations have made little progress. […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Jan 25, 2015

As the ISIS Wars Uproot Millions, Iraq’s Kurdish Region Faces a Flood of Human Misery

By Bina Hussein

Of 2 Million Refugees in Kurdish Zone, Most Languish Outside Camps, With Little or No Aid Amid the world attention focused on 3.8 million Syrians uprooted by the violent spread of the ISIS Islamist army, a little-noted part of that crisis is the flood of perhaps 2 million refugees from both Syria and Iraq into […]

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Jan 24, 2015

What 2015 Holds for the Middle East

By Nabeel Khoury

In “The Arab Cold War Revisited,” published in Middle East Policy 2013, I suggested that Arab monarchies, authoritarian republics, and Islamist forces comprised the three main axes competing for power in the Middle East. I argued that the competition would likely continue until the more radical Islamists were defeated and the state systems went back […]

Iraq Middle East

MENASource

Jan 24, 2015

Co-opting January 25

By Basil El-Dabh

“Take care when you are demanding your rights, take care, don’t lead us astray with you.” This was part of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s message to Egyptians earlier this week as he spoke before police officers to mark Police Day, a date which coincides with Egypt’s 2011 uprising.  “Nobody is against human rights…but today Egypt […]

North Africa
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