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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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MENASource

Aug 20, 2014

Top News: Washington Hits Back at Egypt Criticism over Missouri Unrest

By EgyptSource

A US official on Tuesday hit back at Egypt after Cairo took a swipe at US authorities’ handling of racially-motivated demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, saying Washington would call on countries to deal with their problems as openly and honestly as it does.

MENASource

Aug 20, 2014

Syria: Time for Washington to Decide

By Frederic C. Hof

Of the many difficult questions Washington faces about the crisis in Syria, three are basic: what is the strategy of the United States for achieving President Obama’s objective of a negotiated political transition from rule by crime family to decent, pluralistic governance?

Syria

MENASource

Aug 20, 2014

EconSource: Libya Returning to Oil Market Despite Violence

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries.

New Atlanticist

Aug 19, 2014

In Nagorno-Karabakh, an Old Caucasus War Flares Anew

By Sabine Freizer

Deadliest Fighting in 20 Years is Encouraged by Crisis in Ukraine The often-forgotten conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh has flared this summer into the worst violence since a 1994 truce, killing at least eighteen soldiers in recent weeks. The surge in fighting not only shows that renewed, all-out warfare is a danger; […]

Russia The Caucasus

Trade in Action

Aug 19, 2014

Latest News on TTIP and Europe’s “Greater Depression”

Some Little Things You Should Know About TTIPDr. Reinhold Festge, president of the German Engineering Association, writes for EurActiv to underline that TTIP is about setting global standards together across the Atlantic rather than lowering safety provisions on either side of the Ocean. Using the example of small and medium-sized engineering enterprises in Germany, and […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 25, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 19, 2014

Secretary General: Independent Scotland Would Have to Apply to Join NATO

By BBC

An independent Scotland would have to apply to Nato as a new state, secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Aug 19, 2014

YemenSource | Friends of Yemen To Meet On September 24 In New York

By YemenSource

A government source announced that the eighth Friends of Yemen meeting will take place on September 24 in New York on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly meetings. 

MENASource

Aug 19, 2014

In Egypt, Religion Remains a Vital Political Tool

By Johannes A. Makar

It was a familiar sight: the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayyeb, and the Coptic Pope, Tawadros II, side-by-side as General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the ousting of Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013. Front seats were granted to the two grey-bearded clerics who had donned their customary robes for the occasion. Since the founding […]

North Africa
Baltic presidents with Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nov. 6, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 19, 2014

Special Summit Series: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and NATO

By Pauli Järvenpää

For the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the 2014 NATO Wales Summit marks a pivotal moment in the history of the Alliance.

International Security Assistance Force NATO

MENASource

Aug 19, 2014

Top News: UN to Send Aid to Half a Million Iraqis

By MENASource

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday that its launching a major aid operation to deliver supplies to more than half a million Iraqi people displaced by the fighting. A four-day airlift of tents and other goods will begin on Wednesday to Irbil from Aqaba in Jordan, followed by road convoys […]

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