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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

Jul 7, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | July 7

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine’s Lawless War Zones Recede as Rebel Fighters Fall Back from Time Wanted: A Real War of Ideas With Russia from National Interest Struggling Russians Less Euphoric About Annexation of Crimea from Moscow Times How Ukraine Can Begin to Move Forward from Huffington Post Russia Resurrects Soviet Ways in Treatment of the Crimean Tatars from Kharkiv Human Rights Group The Belarus Free Theatre’s Badass Dissident […]

Ukraine

MENASource

Jul 7, 2014

Top News: Egypt to Raise Petrol Price by 78 Percent as Government Cuts Subsidies

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s government raised the prices of fuel by up to 78 percent starting Saturday, following on a promise to cut subsidies that eat up nearly a quarter of the state budget.

MENASource

Jul 7, 2014

Top News: ISIS Expels 60,000 From Homes in Eastern Syria

By MENASource

The al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, also known as simply IS) has expelled more than 30,000 people from their homes in the eastern Syrian town of Shiheil, a stronghold of its jihadist rival the Nusra Front. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a further 30,000 residents have been […]

MENASource

Jul 7, 2014

Ambassadors Rapp About Syria

With more than 162,000 killed in Syria’s ongoing and brutal conflict, the war has exacted a human cost that now surpasses the atrocities in former Yugoslavia & Sierra Leone. Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large of the US State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice, spoke with Ambassador Fred Hof, senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center for the […]

Syria

MENASource

Jul 7, 2014

EconSource: Egypt’s Sisi risks popularity with fuel, electricity and cigarette price hikes

By EconSource

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

Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 25, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2014

NATO Signals No New Members for the Present

By John-Thor Dahlburg, AP

Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO has been mulling how to react, but it is ruling out one option: rapid expansion.

Intelligence NATO
The Prime Ministers of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, Jan. 29, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 3, 2014

Visegrad Countries May Turn EU Battlegroup into Permanent V4 Rapid Reaction Force

By Visegrád Group

We, the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, recognize that current security trends in Europe call for even closer regional defence cooperation and multinational programs deeply rooted in NATO and EU policies.

Central Europe European Union

New Atlanticist

Jul 3, 2014

Storify: #ACSyria with Ambassador-at-Large of the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice Stephen J. Rapp

By Justine Jablonska

War crimes and crimes against humanity – committed both by regime forces and particular extremist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham – continue in Syria.  Stephen J. Rapp, ambassador-at-large of the Office of Global Criminal Justice, spoke at the Atlantic Council on July 2 about the State Department’s ongoing efforts to promote […]

Syria

New Atlanticist

Jul 3, 2014

Moscow Investigates, Orders Arrest of Ukrainian Officials on War Crimes Charges

By Irena Chalupa

A court in Moscow this week ordered Russian authorities to seek the arrest of Ukrainian billionaire and provincial governor Ihor Kolomoisky for alleged killings of civilians amid Russia’s proxy war in southeast Ukraine. As owner of Ukraine’s biggest bank, plus airlines and other companies, Kolomoisky has been ranked by Forbes in recent years as Ukraine’s […]

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SouthAsiaSource

Jul 3, 2014

This Week in South Asia: June 28 – July 3

By Nameerah Hameed and Fahad Ahsan

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. IndiaIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US Senator John McCain in New Delhi on Thursday as the two sides reiterated their desire to revive the strategic US-India partnership. To continue this dialogue, Modi is […]

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