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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

Oct 21, 2013

Syria: Is it Too Late To Do Anything?

By Frederic C. Hof

Those who have long counseled against the United States taking control of the arming of Syrian opposition forces have recently updated their argument: it is now simply too late for Washington to do anything useful, even if it wanted to.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 21, 2013

Top News: Al-Azhar University Students Clash with Security Forces

By EgyptSource

A group of al-Azhar students clashed with security forces on Sunday after a staged protest denouncing the death and arrest of several al-Azhar students turned violent. Al-Azhar students’ protests began on Saturday to voice their rejection of the “military coup” which led to the unseating of former President Mohamed Morsi. Students rallied outside the administrative […]

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2013

New Report of N.S.A. Spying Angers France

By Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times

The National Security Agency has carried out extensive electronic surveillance in France, a French newspaper reported Monday, drawing an angry condemnation from an important American ally.

Cybersecurity France

MENASource

Oct 21, 2013

Top News: Gunmen Kill Four Near Church in Cairo Suburb

By MENASource

Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside al-Waraq’s Keniset Al-‘Adra (Church of the Virgin Mary) located in the Waraq suburb in the Giza governorate on Sunday night. This counts as the first attack on a church in Cairo since the army’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, which instigated attacks on Coptic Christian properties […]

MENASource

Oct 21, 2013

Syria & Sectarianism: Implications (Part II)

By Jonathan Paris

The Arab Spring accentuated two long-standing developments in the region: political Islam and Sunni-Shia sectarianism. While the path of political Islam is less certain following Egypt’s hot summer, the rise of sectarianism, especially in Syria, continues unabated.

Middle East Syria
Canada's Operation Artemis

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2013

Canada Extends Maritime Security and Counter-Terrorism Mission in the Arabian Sea

By Canadian Ministry of Defense

The Government of Canada announced today that it will continue its commitment to maritime security and counter-terrorism in the Arabian Sea region by extending Canada’s contribution to Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) until April 2015.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2013

NATO Agrees to Help Libya’s Security Forces

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Allies have agreed to respond positively to the request made by the Libyan Prime Minister for NATO to provide advice on defence institution building in Libya, as part of the overall efforts of the international community.

Libya NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 21, 2013

Nawaz Sharif Comes to Washington

By Shuja Nawaz

When Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lands in Washington this weekend, he would not be blamed if he is wracked by mixed feelings. His last visit to the US capital, in July 1999, occurred in the wake of the Kargil adventure with India that he allowed to get out of hand, and which led to a […]

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Oct 21, 2013

Pentagon Meltdown

By Harlan Ullman

At various times in our history, alarms of a pending defense “train wreck” or “hollow force” reverberated throughout Washington. Today, the Pentagon is indeed vulnerable to a meltdown, in many ways far more severe than conventional wisdom holds. But, if we are clever, and that is a Herculean if, we can still field the forces […]

NATO summit in Prague 2002

NATOSource

Oct 18, 2013

NATO’s 2014 Summit Agenda

By Karl-Heinz Kamp, NATO Defense College

Instead of focussing on capabilities, on Syria or on issues singled out by individual nations, the summit should concentrate on those topics which are of overarching importance for NATO’s future in the post-2014 era

Cybersecurity Missile Defense
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