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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 12, 2013

Putin announces bold plans and billions in funding for Russia’s space program

By Stuart Williams, AFP

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

Secretary General: NATO’s partnership with South Korea is ‘young,’ but ‘has great potential’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

NATOSource

Apr 12, 2013

UAE’s Foreign Minister opens first Arab mission at NATO headquarters

By Emirate News Agency

From Emirate News Agency:  H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the UAE, opened the headquarters of the Emirati mission at the Atlantic Alliance (NATO)

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

There’s No North Korea Crisis

By Robert A. Manning

From the hysterical TV portrayals of goose-stepping North Korean troops, breathless news reports of North Korean warnings of war, and maps depicting the range of imminent missile launches (complete with retired U.S. generals explaining the targets), you might think there is a crisis on the Korean Peninsula. But there is no crisis, only a farce.This […]

Korea

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

Reflections on Thatcher

By Julian Lindley-French

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: ‘You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.’”

Economy & Business United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2013

American Airpower Sequestered

By Aaron Burgstein

I like to run. One thing runners know, really that all athletes amateur to professional know, is that when you take time off or scale back on your training because of an injury or the like, it takes time to recover. I don’t mean taking a day off to recover here and there. I mean taking say a […]

Security & Defense

MENASource

Apr 12, 2013

Jordan’s Dilemma

By Faysal Itani

Jordan has long faced economic challenges, and now a convergence of political and economic factors threatens to undermine the social contract that has historically held the kingdom together. Its sporadic embrace of promarket reforms since the late 1980s, through privatization and the monarchy’s nurturing of an urban economic elite, failed to improve living standards for […]

MENASource

Apr 12, 2013

Top News: Shura Council Approves Election Law; Al Azhar Approves Sukuk Law

By Egypt Source

The Shura Council on Thursday approved laws governing the exercise of political rights and House of Representatives elections, while Al-Azhar approved a law that would allow the country, which is struggling with a soaring budget deficit, to issue sukuk (Islamic bonds), but said some articles passed by the Shura Council must be amended. 

MENASource

Apr 12, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: On the Cathedral Attack

By Andrew Ver Steegh

The clashes on Sunday during the funeral of four Egyptian Christians killed earlier in the weekend were condemned across the political spectrum; however, the incident has attracted attention in the op-ed pages of Egypt’s independent press primarily as another sign of the continuing political decay of the country.  Here are a few excerpts:

NATOSource

Apr 11, 2013

President of Estonia: Cyber allows enemies to ‘paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces’

By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, International Herald Tribune

From Toomas Hendrik Ilves, International Herald Tribune:  Today, almost everything we do depends on a digitized system of one kind or another.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
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