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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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Trade in Action

Apr 29, 2014

TTIP Action: April 29

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Explosions Kill Forty-Five in Homs; Fourteen Dead, Eighty-Six Injured in Damascus

By MENASource

Mortar shells slammed into a religious school campus in central Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least fourteen people and wounding eighty-six. The school, an Islamic law center where students from Syria and abroad study religious jurisprudence, taught students as young as fourteen, but it was not immediately clear if there were children among the dead or wounded. […]

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Egyptian and International Groups Condemn Minya Death Sentences

By EgyptSource

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for protests against the death sentences passed against 683 people in Minya on Monday. In a protest against the death sentences in Damietta, a man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday.

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

YemenSource | New NDC Implementation Panel Created

By YemenSource

President Hadi created a new panel to oversee implementation of the outcomes and conclusions of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC). This panel will be comprised of eighty-two delegates who participated in the NDC. The formation of the panel was mandated by the concluding document of the Dialogue, though it remains unclear what specific powers, scope, […]

Yemen

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

EconSource: Tunisia’s currency reserves fall to record low

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Syria: Pull Together Resources, Rationalize the Response

By Frederic C. Hof

In a recent panel discussion conducted under Chatham House rules, a United States Senator explained the essence of an absent US leadership role in bringing about political transition in Syria: “to pull together the resources and rationalize the response.”

Syria

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Egypt’s Politicized Judiciary Undermining Rule of Law

By MENASource

Yesterday’s mass death sentence for supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi by a local judge in Egypt sparked an uproar among Egyptian activists and international observers. Another judge also banned the April 6 Youth Movement, a key revolutionary actor in the January 2011 uprising.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Apr 28, 2014

Why Did Gunmen So Easily Take Over in Eastern Ukraine? Umm, Here’s Why . . .

By Irena Chalupa

How have pro-Russian militants taken over city halls and police stations across eastern Ukraine with such surprising ease? Ukrainian journalist Valentyn Chernyavsky decided to test that question in his hometown, the provincial capital of Cherkasy, about 125 miles south of Kyiv. He donned the uniform of a Russian separatist militant, grabbed a (fake but realistic) […]

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Apr 28, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | April 28

By Irena Chalupa

Here’s some of what we’re reading on Ukraine today: Pro Russian Forces Parade detained European officers from Washington Post Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune from The New York Times Why We Have To Win In Ukraine And Putin Has To Lose from Forbes ‘What Is Happening in Ukraine Is Dangerous for Russia’ from […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Apr 28, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Ukrainians Name the Russian Army Colonel Leading Separatist Militias

By Irena Chalupa

Reporters Confirm Donetsk ‘Rebel’ Commander Is From Moscow With some inadvertent help from the Kremlin-loyalist daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russian and Ukrainian media have profiled — and outed — Igor Strelkov, the previously unknown military commander at the center of Ukraine’s deadliest separatist violence, in the eastern city of Slaviansk. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) […]

Russia Ukraine
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