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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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"Disengagement is misguided and dangerous"

NATOSource

Aug 14, 2014

US Disengagement from International Leadership is ‘Misguided and Dangerous’

By Richard Fontaine and Michèle Flournoy, National Interest

The United States has sought to disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan, placing more emphasis on when our troops would come home than on how we would protect our national interests as those wars end.

China NATO

Trade in Action

Aug 14, 2014

TTIP, the Stagnation of the European Economy and the EU-Canada Trade Deal

USTR European Outreach Highlights TTIP’s Opportunities for Small Business Trade, Investment, and US Jobs Christina Sevilla, the deputy assistant US Trade Representative for small business, recently discussed the importance of small- and medium-sized business on growth in both the US and EU. Sevilla met with companies from across Europe, in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg, about […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

UkraineAlert

Aug 14, 2014

Watching For Putin’s Plan ‘B’ in Ukraine

By James Rupert

With Kremlin’s Proxy War Stumbling, Kyiv and West Guard Against ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ As Russia’s government moves its proposed convoy of humanitarian aid toward the war zone in Ukraine that it has created with its support of separatist militias, Ukraine and Western governments are warning it not to try using Russian military forces on the border […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Aug 14, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | August 15

By Irena Chalupa

‘Siberian Federalization´ Idea Spreads to Kaliningrad and Kuban via The Interpreter Ukraine Is Winning the War via Politico NATO Nears Agreement on Beefing Up Presence in Eastern Europe: Poland via Reuters Russia’s Soul: What Crimea Says About Putin’s Future  via der Spiegel Circles of Power: Putin’s Secret Friendship with Ex-Stasi Officer via Guardian A Game of Russian Roulette? The West’s Dangerous Sanctions Play Against Russia via National […]

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, August 14, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 14, 2014

Special Summit Series: Norway and NATO

By Magnus Nordenman

Norway is in many ways a unique NATO member that currently finds itself in an advantageous position in comparison to its fellow European allies.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

MENASource

Aug 14, 2014

Top News: At Least Thirty-Nine Killed In Rebel-Jihadist Clashes in Aleppo Province

By MENASource

 At least thirty-nine fighters were killed on Wednesday in fierce clashes between Syrian rebels and jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that the “clashes ended with the jihadist group taking control of six villages in Aleppo province.”

MENASource

Aug 14, 2014

Top News: Two Killed as Morsi Supporters Mark Raba’a Anniversary Dispersal

By EgyptSource

Egyptian security forces firing tear gas quashed small, scattered demonstratons on Thursday by Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi who tried to commemorate the anniversary of the killing of hundreds of protesters.

AfricaSource

Aug 14, 2014

US-Africa Leaders Summit: Highlights

By The Atlantic Council

The Africa Center hosted a busy week of events around the US-Africa Leaders Summit, welcoming four heads of state, the head of a regional governmental organization, numerous ministers, corporate executives, and other stakeholders for lively and thoughtful conversations about the important African issues of the day. Below is a sampling of some of our favorite […]

AfricaSource

Aug 14, 2014

Africa’s Projected Population Boom

By JAMES ATTWELL AND JOSHUA MESERVEY

Africa’s demographic trends have been gaining attention for years, and our last maps for this week show why. Africa today has just over 1 billion people, but by the end of this century it is projected to hold more than 4 billion. Nigeria is a major part of the story; already Africa’s most populous country […]

UkraineAlert

Aug 14, 2014

New Ukraine Orthodox Leader Signals Continued Church Divide

By Irena Chalupa

Ukrainians’ Traditional Loyalty to Moscow Patriarch is Strained by His Close Tie to Kremlin  The longstanding divide between Ukraine’s two main Orthodox churches will continue with little change following the election yesterday of a new leader, or metropolitan, by the Moscow-aligned faction. Metropolitan Onufriy is a religious conservative loyal to his church’s formal subordination to […]

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