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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

Mar 14, 2013

A Nordic defensive shield

By Edward Lucas, European Voice

From Edward Lucas, European Voice:  In Iceland, after much haggling and delay, Finland and Sweden are to take part in a new Nordic Air Policing mission, led by NATO members Norway and Denmark, from 2014.

NATOSource

Mar 14, 2013

After 61 years, NATO headquarters in Heidelberg deactivates

By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes

From Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes:  As part of NATO’s transformation to a more flexible and affordable force, the alliance on Thursday deactivated its Headquarters Allied Force Command Heidelberg, ending a 61-year history that tracks largely alongside that of the U.S. Army’s in this old German city.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 14, 2013

Transatlantic Confessions

By Stanley R. Sloan

Are transatlantic relations in another crisis, perhaps a slow rolling one, or are we at the opening of a new and more promising era for the United States, Canada, and their European partners? Decisions on both sides of the Atlantic in the next few years will determine the fate of America’s most important alliance.

Economy & Business NATO

MENASource

Mar 14, 2013

Top News: No EU Financial Support if no Progress on Democracy, MEPs Say

By Egypt Source

The EU should withhold budget support from Egypt unless it makes significant progress with human rights, democracy and the rule of law, say MEPs in a resolution passed on Thursday. 

MENASource

Mar 13, 2013

Egypt and the IMF: Still Going Round and Round

By Mohsin Khan

With continuing uncertainty surrounding the timing and the content of the $4.8 billion IMF program, it has been suggested that in the meantime Egypt take a short-term emergency IMF loan to meet its immediate foreign exchange needs. However no sooner than the IMF offer was made, Finance Minister Hegazy and cabinet spokesman al-Hadidi rejected it […]

NATOSource

Mar 13, 2013

The Value of NATO to Canada

By Steve Saideman, Canadian International Council

From Steve Saideman, Canadian International Council:   Canada’s security almost entirely hinges on the efforts of only one NATO member – the United States, of course.  But if Canada is concerned about the Arctic, then other players such as Denmark (via Greenland) and Norway matter as well.

MENASource

Mar 13, 2013

Report: US Should Become Aggregator of International Assistance to Egypt

By Nancy Messieh

The Atlantic Council’s Middle East Peace and Security Initiative released a new issue brief today: “A Strategy for US Engagement in the Middle East: Contain Threats, Embrace Dignity." 

NATOSource

Mar 13, 2013

Russia starts preparing Zapad-2013 war games against deployment of NATO missile shield

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  This week the Russian Defense Ministry will start  preparing for large-scale joint strategic military exercises with Belarus, scheduled for fall of 2013, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.

NATOSource

Mar 13, 2013

Russian Navy to receive 24 submarines and 54 surface warships by 2020

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The Russian Navy will receive 24 submarines and 54 warships of various classes by 2020, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday. “As a result of the implementation of the state rearmament program to 2020, the navy should receive eight nuclear-powered strategic submarines, 16 multirole submarines and 54 warships of various classes,” […]

NATOSource

Mar 13, 2013

Video: First European theater missile interceptor system achieves NATO interoperability

By NATO Communication and Information (NCI) Agency

From NATO Communication and Information (NCI) Agency:  On 6 March, the French/Italian SAMP/T surface-to-air missile system successfully engaged and destroyed a theatre ballistic missile target in a live-fire test at the French Firing Range in Biscarrosse and proved its ability to work with NATO’s interim Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) command and control system.

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