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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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NATOSource

Jun 28, 2013

Georgia Now the Top Non-NATO Troop Contributor in Afghanistan

By NATO

From NATO:  Georgia has been assisting the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan since 2004. Following a substantial increase of its deployment in October last year, Georgia currently has over 1,500 troops deployed there, making it the largest non-NATO contributor to ISAF and the fifth largest contributor overall. “We greatly appreciate the active […]

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

Carl Bildt: Sweden Developing its ‘Partnership with NATO in All the Different Areas of Mutual Interest’

By Carl Bildt, Swedish Foreign Ministry

From Carl Bildt, Swedish Foreign Ministry:  Up in our North, the air forces of Sweden, Finland and Norway are now training more intensely together than perhaps any other air forces in Europe today. Next year, they will do this based in Iceland as well. And we are developing our partnership with NATO in all the […]

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

Carl Bildt: Sweden has Chosen Partnership over Neutrality

By Carl Bildt, Swedish Foreign Ministry

From Carl Bildt, Swedish Foreign Ministry:  Since then [1523] – nearly half a millennium – Stockholm has been one of the very few European capitals where foreign forces of occupation and war have never set their foot.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jun 27, 2013

The Economic Collapse of Syria

By Mohsin Khan and Faysal Itani

The violent civil war in Syria that began with the uprising in March 2011 has already imposed tremendous costs on the Syrian population. More than 100,000 people have died and millions have become refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, in addition to the internally displaced in Syria itself.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

NATO Lambasts Russian Fences in South Ossetia

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  NATO on Thursday once again harshly criticized Russia’s construction of barbed-wire fences along an ex-Georgian region’s 350-kilometer border with that country.

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Democracy is More than Just a Ballot Box’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  NATO is far more than a military Alliance. NATO is a community of values. It is a family of nations that believes in freedom, democracy, and the rule of law.

MENASource

Jun 27, 2013

Morsi’s Economic Scorecard: Not a Good Year

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

As the first anniversary of President Mohammed Morsi’s term approaches on June 30, it is clearly evident that Egypt’s first democratically elected president has so far failed to tackle the core economic issues which fueled the popular uprising in January 2011. President Morsi inherited an economy that was already floundering. Economic growth had fallen to […]

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

Secretary General: ‘Further Work is Needed’ Before Georgia Can Join NATO (Video)

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

MENASource

Jun 27, 2013

Morsi’s Pre-Tamarod Speech: Threats, Lies, and Manipulation

By Mai El Sadany

In a two hour and forty minute speech of about 3,000 words, rather than focus on initiatives desperately needed in order to repair a divided country, President Mohamed Morsi instead delivered a set of pointed threats and blatant lies that come just days before a protest reflect the rejection of his presidency by over 15 […]

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2013

NATO Praises Georgia and Encourages Further Reforms (Video)

By NATO

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