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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

Jul 30, 2013

Want World Domination? Size Matters

By Garrett Workman

News The One Solution to Unemployment That Our Leaders Clearly Haven’t Thought Of | PolicyMicA successful conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership would provide an unparalleled opportunity to boost economic growth and production. TTIP would provide a sizeable boost to household income on either side of the Atlantic. But if the two blocks […]

MENASource

Jul 30, 2013

Syrian Refugees: The Latest Target of Xenophobic Fervor

By Amira Mikhail

Only a few days after former President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the Egyptian armed forces, more than 200 Syrians refugees were deported from Cairo airport. Egyptian authorities had laid down new regulations for Syrians entering the country only hours before they arrived, sending them back to the Syrian town of Latakia, their point of […]

North Africa Syria

MENASource

Jul 30, 2013

Top News: Eighty killed, 299 Injured in Cairo’s Nasr City Violence

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced that at least eighty were killed and 299 injured in Nasr City district’s violence in the early hours of Saturday. Doctors at the field hospital of the massive pro-Morsi sit-in in Nasr City said at least 200 protesters were killed and 4,500 injured from, most of whom they say were fatally shot.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jul 29, 2013

Zimbabwe’s Irrelevant Election

By Bronwyn Bruton

Elections scheduled for Wednesday in Zimbabwe are shaping up to be an absolute disaster. They were organized on short notice and without adequate budget, so promise to be plagued with irregularities. Some will be deliberate—the ruling party is expected to rig the vote and violently harass the political opposition—but enormous lines, unprinted ballots, and disorganized […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 29, 2013

Some NATO Allies Concerned about Turkey’s Satellite Launching Center

By Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News

Turkey has approved construction of its first satellite launching center to cater for the country’s mushrooming satellite programs. But Ankara’s western allies worry that the Turks intend to use their own launching pad to fire the long-range missiles they hope to build in the medium- to long-run.

Missile Defense Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 28, 2013

Turkey-Syria-Kurdish Fronts Heat Up

By Ross Wilson

Reports that Turkish F-16s will fly reconnaissance flights along the Syrian frontier highlight rising alarm over border security and suggest a further internationalization of the civil war in Syria with implications for it, Turkey, and the region’s Kurds.

Intelligence Security & Defense

MENASource

Jul 27, 2013

Photo Essay: An Eyewitness Account of Raba’a al-Adaweya

By Mosaab Elshamy

Editor’s note: On Friday night, security forces attacked the sit-in at Raba’a al-Adaweya in Nasr City, where supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi have been camped out for approximately three weeks. It is believed that clashes broke out after some of pro-Morsi protesters tried to block off a main road. While the Ministry of Interior […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 26, 2013

The Magic That Turned on the Magician

By The Big Pharaoh

For the first time, with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s call for mass protests on Friday July 26 to “confront terrorism,” the Egyptian military is openly and directly asking Egyptians to rally in a show of support for an impending action. His call indicates that, once again, the balance of power in Egypt has changed; turning the […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 26, 2013

Top News: Egypt Court Orders Morsi Detention Over Hamas Collaboration

By EgyptSource

A top Egyptian court has ordered the detention of ousted President Mohamed Morsi for fifteen days pending investigations into his suspected collaboration with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Morsi is accused of collaborating with Hamas to escape from Wadi al-Natroun Prison and destroy prison records during the 2011 uprising, attack police stations during the uprising, the intentional killing […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jul 26, 2013

US Governance Backbone Needed Now

By Harlan Ullman

Resurrection is a popular metaphor often promiscuously applied to fallen or disgraced athletes, politicians, celebrities and, of course, religion. But few entities are more in need of resurrection than the governance of the United States.

Politics & Diplomacy
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