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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

Jun 25, 2014

Building the Pro-Sisi State in Egypt

By MENASource

In an Egypt where the tide has decidedly turned in strong favor of a military-backed goverment and against virtually any form of dissent, President General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi presides over a fragmented, uncoordinated, and incomplete system of governance.

North Africa

MENASource

Jun 25, 2014

Top News: Eight Injured in String of Cairo Blasts; Authorities Blame Brotherhood

By EgyptSource

At least eight people were injured in northern Cairo when homemade explosive devices blew up at four metro stations and a courthouse on Wednesday morning in the first attacks in Cairo since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president earlier this month.

MENASource

Jun 25, 2014

EconSource: Yemen seeks EU, WB support to maintain fiscal sustainability

By EconSource

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

About a dozen of NATO's 28 members reluctant to see Georgia join alliance

NATOSource

Jun 24, 2014

NATO Unlikely to Grant Georgia Step to Membership-Diplomats

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO countries, wary of antagonising Russia, are unlikely to grant former Soviet republic Georgia a formal step towards membership of the alliance at a summit in September, NATO diplomats say.

France Germany

MENASource

Jun 24, 2014

Egypt’s New Law for Parliamentary Elections Sets Up a Weak Legislature

By Scott Williamson and Nathan J. Brown

In an uncharacteristically immodest burst of activity, Egypt’s humble and stolid acting president, Adly Mansour, issued a series of last-minute decree-laws before handing authority over to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Some dealt with harassment, preaching, and littering. He still showed caution and restraint in some significant areas—for instance, a set of legislative changes designed to […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

Jun 24, 2014

Top News: ISIS Moves to Capture Iraqi Border Crossings With Syria and Jordan

By MENASource

The Sunni militant extremists who have seized a broad area of Iraq extended their control on Monday to the country’s entire western frontier, having secured nearly all official border crossings with Syria and are fighting to gain the only crossing with Jordan, giving them the semblance of the new independent state that they say they intend to […]

Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Jun 24, 2014

Estonia PM Calls for Permanent NATO Presence as Bulwark to Russia

By Reuters

Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas urged NATO on Friday to establish a permanent presence in the Baltic state in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, telling his allies to “open your eyes and stay awake. . . .”

NATO Northern Europe

MENASource

Jun 24, 2014

Top News: US Urges Egypt to Pardon Journalists; Sisi Refuses to Interfere in Judicial Rulings

By EgyptSource

In a statement issued on Monday, the White House condemned the sentencing in Egypt of three Al Jazeera journalists, and fifteen others, to seven to ten years in jail for aiding a “terrorist” organization. Sisi, however, said on Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, rebuffing calls from the United States and other Western governments.

Trade in Action

Jun 24, 2014

TTIP Action: June 24

By Global Business & Economics Program

Read about the latest developments today in TTIP and the global economy below.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Jun 23, 2014

Factbox: Egypt Court Jails Jazeera Journalists

By EgyptSource

On Monday, the Giza Criminal Court sentenced eighteen people in the Al Jazeera trial to prison sentences ranging from seven to ten years. Only two of the defendants were acquitted.

North Africa
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