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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

Aug 3, 2012

Mitt Romney Flunks His Foreign Policy Tryout

By R. Nicholas Burns

Governor Mitt Romney had a chance to demonstrate on his trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland that he is ready to take on the duties of America’s top diplomat and commander in chief — among the presidency’s most vital responsibilities. Yet for reasons that are hard to understand, Romney undermined himself through surprising lapses […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Aug 3, 2012

Top News: Egypt PM Qandil Makes Some Surprise, Controversial Ministerial Choices

By Egypt Source

Newly appointed Prime Minister Hisham Qandil completed the formation of his government Thursday morning. In total, the Qandil government includes 35 ministers, compared to 29 under his predecessor, Kamal El-Ganzouri. Qandil’s government includes 29 technocrats (seven of whom served under El-Ganzouri), four ministers from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, one minister from the […]

New Atlanticist

Aug 3, 2012

In Putin’s Circle, Obama Is Gorbachev

By Frederick Kempe

In private conversations with visiting U.S. business leaders, Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin have recently referred to President Barack Obama as “your Gorbachev.” And they haven’t meant it positively.

Russia

MENASource

Aug 3, 2012

Egypt’s Workers: A Ticking Time Bomb for Another Revolution / استمرار غياب العدالة الاجتماعية قنبلة موقوتة لثورة جديدة في مصر

By Haitham Tabei

In 2008, workers at Ghazl El-Mahalla, the biggest textile company in Egypt, placed their fellow countrymen on the path to revolution, igniting the first wave of significant protests against former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. At the time, they were protesting low wages, inflation and corruption in the company’s higher echelons. Taking to the street, they […]

NATOSource

Aug 2, 2012

Membership of committee preparing new French defense strategy disclosed
United Kingdom United States and Canada

Congressional Relations

Aug 2, 2012

Senator Mikulski: The Collins-Lieberman cyber security bill and NATO

By Barbara Mikulski, Office of Senator Mikulski

From Barbara Mikulski, Office of Senator Mikulski:  I really worry about the possibility of an attack. We know that there are already attacks going on, particularly in our financial services.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Aug 2, 2012

US must recall it is not just any country

By Condoleezza Rice, the Financial Times

From Condoleezza Rice, the Financial Times:  If Americans want the tectonic plates of the international system to settle in a way that makes the world safer, freer and more prosperous, the US must overcome its reluctance to lead.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Aug 2, 2012

Spain arrests al Qaeda suspects planning European attacks

By Inmaculada Sanz and Nigel Davies, Reuters

From Inmaculada Sanz and Nigel Davies, Reuters:  Three people linked to al Qaeda have been arrested in the south of Spain, one in possession of explosives

NATOSource

Aug 2, 2012

Madeleine Albright on Czech Atlanticism

By Eastern Approaches, the Economist

From Eastern Approaches, the Economist:  For the Czechs, Madeleine Albright (née Marie Jana Körbelová) is one of them.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Aug 2, 2012

Prime Minister Hesham Kandil Announces His New Cabinet (Full List)

By Nancy Messieh

Ahram Online has published a list of 34 of the 35 Ministers that have been appointed in Hesham Kandil’s cabinet. The only minister who has yet to be named is the Minister of Civil Aviation. The selections have been plagued by numerous issues. Liberal, socialist and conservative politicians have refused to play any part in […]

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