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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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New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2012

Protecting the Benefits of the Internet Is One of the Great Challenges of Our Time

By William Hague and Janos Martonyi

In little over a decade the internet has revolutionised our world. We can communicate freely wherever we are, share ideas across borders and draw on extraordinary archives of information. In today’s digital world we can do almost anything online, from banking to sharing news in just 140 characters. The internet is a critical engine of […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2012

Turkey’s Parliament authorizes military operations in Syria

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser, the AP

MENASource

Oct 4, 2012

Top News: Morsi Appoints Emergency Court Judges

By Egypt Source

An Egyptian rights group has sued to repeal a presidential order that would effectively reinstate the country’s reviled state of emergency. Although the state of emergency was lifted in May of this year, President Mohamed Morsy issued a presidential order on 22 September that appointed 3,649 judges to seats in State Security Emergency Courts.

New Atlanticist

Oct 3, 2012

Syrian Mortar Attack on Turkey Adds New Dimension to Conflict

By Ross Wilson

The October 3 spillover of violence in Syria across the border to Turkey has added a new edge to the campaign Prime Minister Erdoğan’s Administration has been waging to convince its allies and friends that Syria is spinning out of control, increasingly threatening regional peace and stability, and warranting a firmer response.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2012

Clinton: ‘All responsible nations need to band together’ to deal with Assad regime

By the Department of State

From the Department of State:  With respect to what happened on the Turkey-Syria border, we are outraged that the Syrians have been shooting across the border.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2012

NATO strongly condemns Syrian shelling which killed five in Turkey

By NATO

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2012

Clinton ‘outraged’ by Syria mortar strike in Turkey

By Zaman

From Zaman:  "We are outraged that the Syrians have been shooting across the border. We are very regretful about the loss of life that has occurred on the Turkish side," [Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton said in remarks during an appearance with Kazakhstan’s visiting foreign minister.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2012

Turkey contacts NATO chief after Syria mortar strike kills five

By Reuters

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2012

Google Warns of New State-Sponsored Cyberattack Targets

By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times

From Nicole Perlroth, New York Times:  In June, many Google users were surprised to see an unusual greeting at the top of their Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

MENASource

Oct 3, 2012

Two Minors Placed in Juvenile Detention as Blasphemy Cases Increase in Egypt

By Nancy Messieh

With an initial wave of protests against an anti-Islam film dying down rather quickly in Egypt, an increase in blasphemy cases throughout the country appears to be a byproduct of these events. While blasphemy laws were often manipulated under the Mubarak regime, the number of cases in Egypt increased sharply over the past few weeks, […]

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