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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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Locked Shields is the largest international cyber exercise in the world

NATOSource

May 28, 2014

Estonia Exercise Shows NATO’s Growing Worry About Cyber Attacks

By Peter Apps, Reuters

With more than 300 participants and teams from 17 nations, organizers said it [Estonia’s Locked Shields cyber exercise] was the largest international cyber maneuver yet mounted, simulating an attack on a fictional nation called “Berylia” by a 50-strong team of computer experts.

China Cybersecurity
President Barack Obama hands a diploma to one of about 1,000 graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, on May 28. Obama’s commencement address is one of several the White House plans to lay out his foreign policy vision for the remainder of his term in office. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2014

Obama Updates Security Strategy for a Changing World

By Barry Pavel

President, at West Point, Signals a Shift Toward Partnerships in Fighting Terrorism While there was much continuity in President Barack Obama’s West Point speech today, at least three new emphases represent an administration that is both learning the foreign and defense policy lessons of its tenure as well as reappraising where the world is headed […]

US Marines during a mission in Helmand, April 28, 2014

NATOSource

May 28, 2014

US and NATO to Hammer Out Postwar Afghanistan Plan Next Week

By Carlo Muñoz, US Naval Institute

Western European military leaders and their counterparts in Washington will convene next week to hammer out the details of the White House’s recently unveiled postwar plan for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2014

EU’s Strengthened Political Parties May Soon Be the ‘Leading Instrument’ of Putin’s Europe Policy

By New Atlanticist

Now that Europeans have given more seats in their continental parliament to the far-right and far-left parties that want to significantly weaken the European Union, there will be some changes in Brussels, writes Damon Wilson in a posting today. “Will the EU Vote Bury Foreign Policy?” asks Judy Dempsey, European affairs analyst at Carnegie Europe, […]

Elections Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

May 28, 2014

Syria: President Obama At West Point

By Frederic C. Hof

In his graduation ceremony remarks of May 28 at the United States Military Academy, President Obama implied an explicit new policy direction with respect to Syria. The president announced that he would call on Congress “to support a new Counter-Terrorism Partnership Fund of up to $5 billion, which will allow us to train, build capacity, […]

Syria

SouthAsiaSource

May 28, 2014

Can Modi boost complex India-US ties?

By Robert A. Manning

Narendra Modi’s historic, landslide victory has raised hopes that the man himself and his BJP can, in power, revive India’s sputtering economy and rejuvenate a disillusioned and rudderless US-India relationship.  It seems ages ago now, but only a few years ago India and China were spoken of in the same breath as the dynamic, rising […]

Elections India

MENASource

May 28, 2014

Egyptian Elections: First Conclusions

By Mohamed El Dahshan

A military brass band in a polling station, the right to draw little hearts on official ballots, one explosion, and an unplanned day off: as the voting in Egypt’s twenty-first day of national elections since 2011 ends, there were only a few surprises but some preliminary conclusions can already be made.

Elections North Africa
President Barack Obama at West Point, May 28, 2014

NATOSource

May 28, 2014

Obama Sees US as the ‘Hub of Alliances’ Unrivaled in History

By Barack Obama, Federal News Service

From Europe to Asia, we are the hub of alliances unrivaled in the history of nations.

China NATO

MENASource

May 28, 2014

Three Immediate Economic Problems Sisi Must Tackle

By Mohsin Khan

The next Egyptian president, who by all accounts will be Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is going to inherit an economy in distress. All of Egypt’s main macroeconomic indicators have gone south since the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.

North Africa

MENASource

May 28, 2014

Top News: Low Voter Turnout Continues as Presidential Elections enter Third Day

By EgyptSource

Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country’s presidential election from the embarrassment of low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day.

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