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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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MENASource

Oct 25, 2012

A Home with No Husbands: A Glimpse at Internal Egyptian Migration

By Jayson Casper

In many villages of Upper Egypt, the extended family lives together in the same complex. In a fair number of these families, however, there are no men present. Qufada, a small village in Upper Egypt, is no exception. High rates of unemployment force the men of the family to look beyond the borders of the […]

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2012

Details of cyber attack against Saudi energy giant

By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times

From Nicole Perlroth, New York Times:  The hackers picked the one day of the year they knew they could inflict the most damage on the world’s most valuable company, Saudi Aramco. On Aug. 15, more than 55,000 Saudi Aramco employees stayed home from work to prepare for one of Islam’s holiest nights of the year […]

Cybersecurity Energy & Environment

MENASource

Oct 25, 2012

Top News: Constituent Assembly: Prime Minister Will Be Chosen from the Majority in Parliament

By Egypt Source

The Committee on the System of Governance in Constituent Assembly yesterday amended the text of Article 143 for the selection of the Prime Minister, agreeing that the president task the majority party or coalition with forming a new government. 

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2012

Dutch Warship Destroys Pirate ‘Mother Ship’

By Luis Martinez, ABC News

From Luis Martinez, ABC News:  Somali pirates may not be as active as they once were in the waters off of east Africa, but they still pose a significant danger to anyone who crosses their path. As a group of alleged pirates learned today, however, AK 47s are no match for the power of a […]

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2012

Ukraine’s Troubling Trends

By Hillary Rodham Clinton and Catherine Ashton, New York Times

From Hillary Rodham Clinton and Catherine Ashton, New York Times:  Ukraine now stands at an important juncture.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2012

U.S. Army wants to develop a new generation of cyber weapons

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  The U.S. Army is conducting a new study to identify the cyber weapons it needs to develop, the service’s top cyber officer said today.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2012

France joins NATO’s Cyber Defense Center

By Estonian Public Broadcasting

From Estonian Public Broadcasting:  A French employee will be transferred for work in summer 2013, according a statement released by the French Embassy. Rear Admiral Arnaud Coustillière, the head of the French Cyber Defense Unit, will visit Estonia in the coming weeks for a Cyber Defense Center board meeting to discuss cooperation between France and […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2012

I Wish the Candidates Had Said That

By Harlan Ullman

More than a century ago, the eccentric writer Oscar Wilde overheard George Bernard Shaw make a particularly witty remark. Wilde slyly muttered, no doubt with malice aforethought, the compliment “I wish I had said that!” Shaw, a literary competitor and no friend of Wilde’s sensed a plagiarism in the making and retorted, “You will, Oscar. […]

Economy & Business Elections

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2012

Foreign Policy Debate: Between the Lines

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

It was a debate on foreign policy when the most urgent priorities are at home. Mitt Romney says he can restore the United States to its long-held image of the invincible superpower. But the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet empire were world-shaking events that are more than two decades […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Oct 24, 2012

Dismissals and Convictions Plague Egyptian Media

By Nancy Messieh

Initial concerns over media restrictions in Egypt have not subsided with two new incidents surfacing in the past two weeks indicating a continued clamp down on freedom of the press. Paired together with a draft constitution that does not go far enough to guarantee a free media, the outlook remains bleak.

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