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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

May 28, 2013

Obama Nominates New Ambassador to NATO and Assistant Secretary of State for Europe

By White House

From White House:  Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2013

Crisis in the Sahel: Trafficking

By Rudolph Atallah

Organized crime—especially various forms of smuggling and narco-trafficking—is the lifeblood of the vast under-governed expanse of the Sahara. It is within this largely decentralized and politically corrupt milieu that terrorists and criminals work together to access weapons and money to sustain their symbiotic operations.

Africa South & Central Africa

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2013

Win Wars Not Battles

By Harlan Ullman

If there is one strategic weakness or Achilles’ heel in U.S. geostrategic thinking, it is a fixation with winning battles and not winning wars. The North Vietnamese famously crowed, “America won every battle and lost the war.” In Afghanistan and Iraq four decades later, the same critique applied. America and the coalition won virtually every […]

Security & Defense United States and Canada

MENASource

May 28, 2013

Top News: EU Failure Will Allow UK, France to Arm Syrian Rebels

Britain and France are free to supply weapons to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad from August, after attempts to renew an EU arms embargo on Syria failed on Monday.

NATOSource

May 28, 2013

China to Send More Than 500 troops to Mali to Contain Islamic Militants

By AFP and Cary Huang, South China Morning Post

From AFP and Cary Huang, South China Morning Post:  China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to UN peacekeeping, diplomats said in New York.

FutureSource

May 28, 2013

Strategic Foresight: Planning for the Unknowable and the Unavoidable

By Catherine Putz

We do not have to predict the future in order to plan for it. The core concern of strategic foresight is not a simplistic identification of what technology we will use in twenty years, for example, but what effects technological change will have on our national interests. Understanding geopolitical and technological tides will assist policymakers […]

MENASource

May 28, 2013

Top News: President Refers NGOs Law to Shura Council

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s presidency referred the final draft of a proposed NGO law to the Shura Council for deliberation, having changed a handful of controversial articles included in previous drafts of the bill. Several members of the president’s advisory team held a Monday press conference to unveil details of the final draft, which they view as better […]

NATOSource

May 27, 2013

The End of the Euro Hawk, Implications for NATO’s AGS Drone Program

By Justyna Gotkowska, Center for Eastern Studies (Poland)

Drones Technology & Innovation

MENASource

May 27, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: The Aftermath of the Sinai Kidnappings

By Andrew Ver Steegh

The abduction of members of Egypt’s army and police in the Sinai last week dominated the news cycle.  While the captives have since been released, Egypt’s media saw an outpouring of writing on the incident, with commentators weighing in on various aspects of the crisis.

NATOSource

May 27, 2013

Romanian Ambassador Chosen to be New NATO Assistant Secretary General

By Foreign Ministry of Romania

From Foreign Ministry of Romania:  Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean welcomes the designation of Ambassador Sorin Ducaru as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Risks.

Cybersecurity Energy & Environment
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