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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

Jan 3, 2013

Bosnia sends first combat unit to Afghanistan

By AFP

From AFP:  Bosnia’s parliament on Thursday backed the deployment of the country’s first combat unit to Afghanistan

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2013

The Menace of Syrian Chemical Weapons

By Jamie M. Fly, Wall Street Journal

From Jamie M. Fly, Wall Street Journal:  Given that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would likely result in outside intervention, which Assad clearly wishes to avoid, a greater threat might be what happens to his chemical arsenal once his regime collapses and the stockpiles go unprotected.

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2013

Turkey’s former army chief detained over 1997 coup

By Today’s Zaman

From Today’s Zaman:  Former Chief of General Staff retired Gen. İsmail Hakkı Karadayı was detained on Thursday for questioning over his suspected role in the ousting of a coalition government on Feb. 28, 1997.

New Atlanticist

Jan 3, 2013

Russia’s Ban on Adoptions a Sign that “Reset” Has Reached its Limits

By Anna Borshchevskaya

On December 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill banning U.S. citizens from adopting Russian children.

Russia

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2013

NATO-Russia Missile Defense: Compromise is Possible

By Steven Pifer, Brookings

From Steven Pifer, Brookings:  The Russian concern has an understandable basis in principle:  if U.S. missile defenses continue to grow in numbers and quality, at some future point they could undermine the balance in strategic offensive forces between Russia and the United States.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jan 3, 2013

Top News: Brotherhood party inclined to run in elections without alliances

By Egypt Source

A source within the Muslim Brotherhood, speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity, said that the majority of members of the group’s Guidance Bureau are inclined to run in the next parliamentary elections without allying with other forces, especially since other Islamist forces have already initiated alliances.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Brotherhood party inclined to […]

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2013

U.S. planning to keep 6,000 to 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after 2014

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Eric Schmitt, New York Times

From Elisabeth Bumiller and Eric Schmitt, New York Times:  Gen. John R. Allen, the senior American commander in Afghanistan, has submitted military options to the Pentagon that would keep 6,000 to 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after 2014, defense officials said on Wednesday.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jan 3, 2013

Syria 2013: Will The Poison Pill of Sectarianism Work?

By Frederic C. Hof

At the dawn of the New Year President Bashar al-Assad and his regime remain committed to pursuing a corrosively destructive sectarian survival strategy, one enjoying a critical assist from an increasingly radicalized and politically directionless armed opposition.  Left to their own devices—as both the West and Russia seemed inclined to leave them—the regime and its armed […]

Syria

NATOSource

Jan 2, 2013

McAffee: Destructive, Stuxnet-level cyber attacks will increase in 2013

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  IT security firm McAfee has just released a report on what it thinks will be the biggest trends in cyber for the new year.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 2, 2013

Russia to hold large-scale naval exercises in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

By RIA Novosti

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