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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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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Feb. 27, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2014

NATO Secretary General: ‘The Right to Choose’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

The crisis in Ukraine is calling into question the very principles upon which we have built the modern Europe.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2014

Use US Gas Exports to Undercut Russia in Europe, Warner Says

By New Atlanticist

US sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Crimea have been ineffective so far and should be backed by further action to deter Russian aggression, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) told an audience at the Atlantic Council. Warner called on the Obama administration to immediately approve licenses for US gas exports to Europe, which he said […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

Top News: More Than 150,000 Killed In Syria Conflict

By MENASource

More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011, a monitoring group said in a new tally released on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 150,344 people, 51,212 of them civilians, including nearly 7,985 children.

MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Campaign Claims Breaches as Signature Collection Begins

By EgyptSource

The presidential campaign of Egyptian Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said violations occurred on the first day of the period in which candidates can register to run for the presidential race.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 1, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2014

Secretary General: Russian Aggression Against Ukraine Brings Instability to NATO’s Borders

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine challenges our vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. It fundamentally changes Europe’s security landscape. And it causes instability right on NATO’s borders.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

EconSource Headlines- April 1, 2014

By EconSource

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

(REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Turkey’s Vote Strengthens Erdoğan For Battles to Come

By Orhan Taner

With more than 98% of the votes counted by midday Monday in the March 30 Turkish municipal elections,  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) clearly had won their eighth straight victory in national voting contests (three general election, three local elections, and two referenda) since they first won […]

Turkey

MENASource

Mar 31, 2014

Blurring the Record on Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

In his exchange with Scott Pelley, President Obama did not (as the Reuters account implies) literally employ the “boots on the ground” straw man to caricature the position of his critics. But he came close.

Syria

MENASource

Mar 31, 2014

Forays by the Coptic Church into Politics Spell Trouble for its Subjects

By Amir Beshay

A video posted this week on Facebook appears to show Egyptian pop singer Ihab Tawfiq singing the now-popular pro-army anthem “Teslam al-Ayadi” in a Coptic church, reportedly in France. This comes as the latest of many examples of the Coptic Church participating in Egypt’s political scene in a way some see as unacceptable. While the […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Why Syria is Important

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria and its 23 million people sit in the middle of a neighborhood containing important friends and allies of the United States. It is now entering its fourth year of chaos, bloodshed, starvation, and terror. It is a case study in how governments commit war crimes and crimes against humanity against their own citizenry: the […]

Middle East Syria
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