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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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Ed Miliband at Labour Party conference, September 2010

NATOSource

Sep 10, 2013

A Much Less Special Relationship

By Roger Cohen, New York Times

Britain’s decision not to stand with the United States, its closest ally, in possible military action to punish the Syrian regime for a deadly chemical weapons attack marks a watershed moment

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

The Nour Party’s Gamble on the Interim Government

By Sarah El-Rashidi

While emerging unexpectedly in the wake of the January 25 revolution, the Salafist political trend is one of the few Islamist movements still involved in the current political process, in the form of one of one of the largest Salafi political parties – the Nour Party. While giving cover to the current government, with a […]

North Africa
Final ceremony at Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, Sept. 6, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 10, 2013

Closing Ceremony for EUCOM’s Historic Campbell Barracks

By Alison Smale, New York Times

For Germans and Americans who had long imagined a dramatic coda to the cold war, it came instead in a few solemn, quiet moments.

Europe & Eurasia Germany
Britain's nuclear deterrent remains "crucial" to NATO

NATOSource

Sep 10, 2013

NATO: UK Nuclear Might ‘Crucial’

By Express

Britain must not take advantage of the winding down of operations in Afghanistan to trim spending on defence, the head of Nato has warned.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

Top News: Ministry Revokes Licenses for Thousands of Imams

By EgyptSource

Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching in mosques in the latest move against sympathizers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the minister of religious endowments said on Tuesday.

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

Egypt’s Draft Constitutional Amendments (Part I)

By Yussef Auf

The process of creating Egypt’s 2012 constitution was accompanied by considerable debate—from the formation of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting it to its ratification last December. Up until his ouster, the constitution was one of the major crises facing former President Mohamed Morsi’s regime, so it comes as no surprise that it is a […]

North Africa
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, December 5, 2012

NATOSource

Sep 10, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘We Need a Firm International Response to the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria’

By BNS

European countries should invest more in their defence capacities to be able to defend principles of democracy around the globe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Vilnius.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Libya Working Group

Sep 10, 2013

Renewing US Engagement with Libya

By MENASource

The Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East together with the Project on Middle East Democracy and Freedom House lead the Libya Working Group, which convenes regular roundtables with experts to discuss a range of political, security, and economic issues in post-Qaddafi Libya.

Libya

New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2013

Europe, Syria, and the Crisis of Global Governance

By Julian Lindley-French

The Riga Conference is a highlight in my annual calendar and an antidote to the eternal self-obsessed ‘westerneuropeanitis’ which passes for strategy in Europe these days.  Sharing a platform with the Belgian, British and Latvian defense ministers I fulfilled my now traditional role as Europe’s strategic hooligan.  Dangerously I also sent my first tweet – […]

Europe & Eurasia Syria

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

Syria: Russia’s Eleventh Hour Chemical Proposal

By Fred Hof

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, either seizing on an off-handed comment by his US counterpart at a press conference in London, or thinking creatively on his own, has proposed that Syria’s chemical stockpile be placed under international supervision and ultimately destroyed.

Syria
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