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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 8, 2013

Pentagon to Seek Less for Missile Defense in 2014 Budget

By Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News

From Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News:  The Pentagon will request $9.16 billion for missile defense programs for the 2014 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, about $550 million less than this year’s $9.71 billion, according to internal budget figures obtained by Bloomberg News.

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2013

How the Nordic Countries Are Quietly Leading the Alliance into the Future

By Magnus Nordenman

Amidst massive defense cuts and perennial squabbling over burden sharing across NATO, the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark have quietly assumed a real leadership role in the transatlantic security relationship. They are making valuable contributions to the Alliance in personnel, strategic vision, operations, and policy. More importantly, they provide a model for […]

NATO Northern Europe

NATOSource

Apr 8, 2013

Rasmussen: Thatcher was ‘a powerful advocate of NATO and the transatlantic bond’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I am deeply saddened by the death of Baroness Thatcher. I express my most profound condolences to her family and the people of the United Kingdom. Baroness Thatcher was an extraordinary politician who was a staunch defender of freedom, a powerful advocate of NATO and the transatlantic bond. She strongly […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Apr 8, 2013

Obama on Thatcher: ‘World has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty’

By Barack Obama, White House

From Barack Obama, White House:  With the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend. 

United Kingdom

MENASource

Apr 8, 2013

The No-Fly Zone Conundrum

By Frederic C. Hof

Since the very start of armed resistance to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad there have been demands that US President Barack Obama declare and impose a no-fly zone over parts of Syria. Over the past several months these demands have increased exponentially, as the regime has established a deadly pattern of terror: when […]

Syria

MENASource

Apr 8, 2013

Top News: Parties and Leaders React to Khusus, Abbasiya Violence

By Egypt Source

 The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) denounced violence that took place in Khusus in Qalyubiya Governorate and outside the Coptic cathedral in Abbasiya, and demanded in a statement that the state "reveals the plans [aiming to create strife between different Egyptian sects], punish those behind them and stop this threat." They also asserted that deadly clashes in […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2013

Obama Played it Safe in Israel

By Ana Palacio

Now that the dust has settled on President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated trip to Israel, it is possible to analyse the significance of the visit. The trip — the first foreign visit of his second term — carries important implications for US foreign policy. Rather than providing the breakthrough for which many had hoped, it demonstrated […]

Middle East National Security

NATOSource

Apr 8, 2013

NATO under pressure as allies cut defense costs

By Deutsche Welle

From Deutsche Welle:  As defense budgets are slashed in dire financial times, governments increasingly rely on alliances and cooperation with their partners.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Apr 8, 2013

In Search of a New Prayer: An Eye Witness Account of the Cathedral Attack

By Wael Eskandar

Inside St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Bishop Raphael, charged with performing the funeral prayers for the martyrs of El Khusus, was having difficulties finding a moment of silence for his prayers to be heard. In the early hours of Saturday, El Khusus was rocked by clashes, sparked by sectarian tension, leaving at least five dead […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 8, 2013

Egypt’s Self-Appointed Gatekeepers

By Ahmed Aboul Enein

On the afternoon of 24 March I found myself in a taxi headed to the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) alongside a Salafi cab driver whilst pretending to be a member of Hazemoon, supporters of former presidential candidate and the self-proclaimed Lion of Islam, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail. Abu Ismail and several other prominent Salafi […]

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