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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

Jul 3, 2013

Live Updates From Egypt – July 3

EgyptSource is continuing to live blog events of July 4. Follow here. Thank you all for following! And thank you to Mai El Sadany for assisting today in the live blogging. Tomorrow the EgyptSource team will continue blogging the events as they unfold. Follow EgyptSource’s live updates on Egypt’s July 3 events and protests. 

MENASource

Jul 3, 2013

How International Events Played into Egypt’s Crisis

By Amro Ali

Egypt’s road to the current crisis has been, in part, shaped by an understated yet unhealthy obsession on the part of Egyptian political groups in scanning the international terrain for allies to bolster domestic positions and fuel their narratives. While many Egyptians are proud to have exported Tahrir Square-styled civil disobedience to rest of the […]

MENASource

Jul 2, 2013

It’s the Identity, Stupid

By Nervana Mahmoud

Millions poured into the streets of Cairo and other regions of Egypt, calling for President Morsi to resign. The vast, unprecedented numbers of the June 30 demonstrations, which continued well into July 1, with unflagging fervor and tenacity, defied expectations. The sheer magnitude of the crowds has even defied logic – after all, Morsi was democratically elected. […]

Trade in Action

Jul 2, 2013

Want to Save Dodd-Frank? Consider TTIP

By Garrett Workman

Commentary Chris Brummer | New AtlanticistThe Atlantic Council’s C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Finance and Growth Dr. Chris Brummer, argues that TTIP offers a major opportunity to promote regulatory coherence and prevent arbitrage across the Atlantic in financial services. This opportunity should be seized. Instead of exempting finance from TTIP negotiations, transatlantic regulatory cooperation […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Jul 2, 2013

Ahram: Roadmap Calls for Military-Led Interim Government

As President Mohamed Morsi was addressing the nation, stressing his role as Egypt’s first democratically president, Egyptian state newspaper Al Ahram had already published what it describes as the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces roadmap for the coming months in Egypt.  

NATOSource

Jul 2, 2013

NATO in the Land of Pretend

By Heather A. Conley and Maren Leed, Center for Strategic and International Studies

From Heather A. Conley and Maren Leed, Center for Strategic and International Studies: NATO’s future rests on the prospects for European defense spending and European political willingness to use the capabilities in which they invest. The outlook is sobering.

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Jul 2, 2013

The US-China Security Dilemma

By Robert Manning, Global Times

From Robert Manning, Global Times:  Eight US presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have pursued a policy of facilitating China’s economic modernization and integration into the international system.

China

New Atlanticist

Jul 2, 2013

US Rebalancing Asia, Not Containing China

By Robert A. Manning

A widely held belief among many in China is that every US policy move affecting the country is part of a concerted strategy of containment aimed at preventing its reemergence. Thus, the US “rebalancing” in Asia, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the US alliances with Japan, South Korea and Australia are all components of a US […]

China Economy & Business

NATOSource

Jul 2, 2013

French Interior Minister: Help Syrian Rebels ‘Triage’ Islamic Extremists from Their Ranks

By James Jay Carafano, National Interest

From James Jay Carafano, National Interest:  The French minister [of Interior Manuel Valls] said he had a list of “monumental” concerns . . . and number one on his list is Syria. Whether Al Qaeda or Assad wins—or if the battle spreads into a larger, regional Shia-Sunni civil war—France is the loser, he implied. The […]

New Atlanticist

Jul 2, 2013

Snowden: Why France is Angry

By Julian Lindley-French

It was as predictable, subtle and French as a first tasting of a Chassagne Montrachet Premier Cru – full of hidden complexity and fascinating ‘notes’. French President Hollande’s condemnation of Edward Snowden-alleged American spying in Europe was dramatically shrill. “We cannot accept”, the President thundered, “…this kind of behaviour between allies and partners”, before going […]

Economy & Business France
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