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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

Apr 25, 2013

China and France: ‘We can drive the world’

By AP

From AP:  China’s President Xi Jinping and France’s President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the French leader visited the Chinese capital on a mission to boost trade amid his country’s worsening economic woes.

MENASource

Apr 25, 2013

Syria and Geneva: No Precondition, but a Certain Result

By Frederic C. Hof

US President Barack Obama’s Syria-related objective remains one of negotiated political transition consistent with what the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) decided in Geneva in June 2012. It is important, therefore, to understand what was actually agreed.

Syria

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

U.S. and its allies ‘have over-invested in NATO’

By Nancy Walbridge Collins, New York Times

From Nancy Walbridge Collins, New York Times:  NATO was the most successful military alliance in the 20th century, accomplishing its significant mission without bloodshed.

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

Transform NATO into a defense community within the EU

By Dmitri Trenin, New York Times

From Dmitri Trenin, New York Times:  If the Atlantic alliance were disbanded, European defense policies could be renationalized

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

NATO ‘remains a cornerstone of stability’

By Camille Grand, New York Times

From Camille Grand, New York Times:  The alliance must also address the serious challenges associated with fiscal austerity as defense spending is rising almost everywhere except in Europe and the United States.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

NATO remains vital

By Xenia Dormandy, New York Times

From Xenia Dormandy, New York Times:  What are the security challenges NATO members face today and in the coming decades, and do we have sufficient commonalities to harness the interests, will and capacity to address them through NATO?

Cybersecurity Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

Time for the United States to leave NATO

By Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times

From Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times:  The United States has done its job and ought to go home. Convert NATO into a European partnership, wholly owned and operated by Europeans

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

Syria Used Chemical Arms, Israel Says

By Adam Entous, Joshua Mitnick, and Stephen Fidler, Wall Street Journal

From Adam Entous, Joshua Mitnick, and Stephen Fidler, Wall Street Journal:  The Syrian army has used lethal chemical weapons during the country’s civil war, Israel’s top military intelligence analyst said Tuesday

United Kingdom

MENASource

Apr 24, 2013

Egypt’s Economic Dilemma Requires a Combination of Economic and Political Reforms

By Amr Abd El-Atty

Since the January 25th Revolution, Egypt has suffered from a major economic crisis, in which the pace of economic growth during the past two years has fallen from the high rates achieved by the Mubarak regime (and confirmed by a number of international financial and economic organizations).  The average citizen, however, did not benefit from […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 24, 2013

Why Terrorism is Different

By James Joyner

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, several commentators have asked why we label some acts of mass violence “terrorism” while others are considered ordinary crime. Why do we treat those two so very differently, despite the latter being responsible for far more American deaths?

National Security Security & Defense
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