Atlantic Council blogs

Atlantic Council blogs provide short-form analyses from Council experts and a wider community of global voices on the world’s most important news stories.
View all
of our blogsSubscribe to our
newsletters

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.

Latest from across our blogs

NATOSource

Mar 18, 2013

German official seeks to ban large exercises by US Army after damage

By Steven Beardsley and Marcus Kloeckner, Stars and Stripes

From Steven Beardsley and Marcus Kloeckner, Stars and Stripes:  One of U.S. Army Europe’s largest maneuver exercises since the end of the Cold War caused extensive damage to fields, fences and bridges, according to local officials who are awaiting compensation and lobbying for a ban on future exercises conducted outside designated training areas.

NATOSource

Mar 18, 2013

U.S. cancels part of missile defense that Russia opposed

By David M. Herszenhorn and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

From David M. Herszenhorn and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times:  The United States has effectively canceled the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system that was fiercely opposed by Russia and cited repeatedly by the Kremlin as a major obstacle to cooperation on nuclear arms reductions and other issues.

MENASource

Mar 18, 2013

Syria: A Slippery Slope?

By Frederic C. Hof

President Barack Obama succeeded in extricating US forces from Iraq and is trying to do the same in Afghanistan. His domestic agenda is ambitious: he sees the rebuilding of the US economy as the foundation for the exercise of American power and influence abroad. He would very much like to devote the priority of his […]

Syria United States and Canada

MENASource

Mar 15, 2013

This Week in Egypt – March 15, 2013

By Nancy Messieh

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more. Quote of the Week "People cannot eat Sharia" – Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt in the News Monday Presidential source: Morsi to call for new national dialogue Islamist political parties form electoral alliance Public prosecution highlights citizens arrest law […]

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2013

U.S. puts phase IV of NATO missile defense system on hold

By Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense

From Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense:  [W]e are restructuring the SM-3 IIB program.  As many of you know, we had planned to deploy the SM-3 IIB as part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach.

MENASource

Mar 15, 2013

Student Union Elections and the Brotherhood’s Electoral Mechanism

By Fady Salah

Throughout its history, student activism played a crucial role in Egypt’s political and social scene. Starting with their struggle against the British occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the 20th century, to the opposition of leftist student bloc to the capitalist policies of former president Anwar al-Sadat in the 1970s, all the way […]

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2013

U.S. beefing up West Coast missile defenses in response to threat from North Korea

By Anne Gearan, Washington Post

From Anne Gearan, Washington Post:  The Pentagon is beefing up West Coast missile defenses in response to escalating threats of attack from nuclear-equipped North Korea, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Friday.

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2013

Power, Prejudice, and Paranoia

By Julian Lindley-French

“The ides of March have come” says Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Standing in the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square Tuesday, watching on a big, incongruous screen the princes of the Roman Universal Church file into mass I was struck by the power of this moment when a new pope is chosen to lead the world’s 1.3 billion […]

China Europe & Eurasia

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2013

Livre blanc leaks: France soon to announce massive defense cuts

By Olivier de France, European Council on Foreign Relations

From Olivier de France, European Council on Foreign Relations:  Initial budget projections for France’s defence effort started leaking yesterday.

MENASource

Mar 15, 2013

On John Kerry’s Visit: A Perspective From the Ground

By Ahmed Maher

There is no denying that the political situation in Egypt is very complicated. Many of those who formerly supported President Mohamed Morsi and his party have since joined the ranks of the opposition, after seeing him ignore or break outright the promises he made on a number of issues.  Morsi and his party have maintained […]

Load More