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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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New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2014

Sweden Ends Its Hunt for a Foreign Submarine in its Waters

By Liz Harper

Three Questions with Magnus Nordenman: NATO, Russia, Sweden, and Security in the Baltic As Sweden called off its week-long search today for a suspected foreign submarine in its territorial waters, the Atlantic Council’s Magnus Nordenman discussed the implications of the incident, in which public discussion suggested a Russian military intrusion. The incident comes amid recent […]

NATO Northern Europe
Ambassador Marriët Schuurman

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2014

New NATO Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Takes Office

By NATO

Ambassador Marriët Schuurman, a Dutch career diplomat, takes up today (Friday, 24 October) her functions as NATO Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security.

NATO Security & Defense

SouthAsiaSource

Oct 24, 2014

This Week in South Asia: October 18-24

By Elijah Logsdon and Refayat Haque

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week.   Iran Pakistani and Iranian border forces exchanged mortar fire this week. The incident occurred a day after officials from each side met to discuss tensions along the border, resulting in an agreement to […]

Afghanistan India
Swedish corvette HMS Helsingborg

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2014

Sweden Submarine Search Called Off

By BBC

The Swedish military has called off its week-long search for a suspected submarine in the sea south of Stockholm, officials say.

Northern Europe Russia

Trade in Action

Oct 24, 2014

TTIP Action | October 23

By Global Business & Economics Program

The Importance of the Internet and Transatlantic Data Flows for US and EU Trade and InvestmentIn his most recent blog entry, Joshua Meltzer, fellow for global economy and development at Brookings, stresses the importance of data flows for transatlantic trade, and global investment. With regards to TTIP, he underlines that the transatlantic economic relationship is […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | October 24

By Jim Rupert

This Election Had Better Work, Because Ukraine Is Angry and Crumbling via Slate Election Includes Risky War Hero Candidates via Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Untrained, Unequipped: Kyiv’s 12th Battalion May Be Ukraine’s Most Corruption-Ravaged Army Unit via Daily Beast Kyiv’s and Moscow’s Forces Both Have Committed Atrocities; Russian Accounts Are Exaggerated via Amnesty International […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Oct 24, 2014

George Soros on Ukraine: Europe Is Sleeping Through Its Decisive Fight

By New Atlanticist

Billionaire investment magnate and pro-democracy philanthropist George Soros has sounded what he says is a wake-up call to Europe (and to the United States) over a failure to see that it is “facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence.” You can read here his full 3,200-word essay for the New York Review of […]

European Union International Organizations
SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, October 24, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2014

Russia Still Has Troops in Ukraine, NATO Says

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO’s military commander said on Friday.

NATO Russia

MENASource

Oct 24, 2014

Top News: Presidential Decree Expels Azhar Students, Faculty for Protests, Appoints New Deans

By EgyptSource

 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree on Thursday amending a law regulating Al-Azhar’s institutions, allowing the expulsion of staff members and students in cases involving violence.

MENASource

Oct 24, 2014

EconSource: Egypt’s Government has to Deliver Growth to Survive

By EconSource

According to Egypt’s investment minister, Egypt’s government has to deliver economic growth in order to survive and should not let complex laws and bureaucracy discourage foreign investment. Currently it takes foreign investors up to six months to secure the licenses and permissions needed to operate in Egypt.

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