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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

Jun 21, 2012

Will Egypt’s Transition Get a Second Chance?

By Sarah Adel Henry

What do Egypt’s transition and a lousy orchestra have in common? When the music is a mess, the conductor – or rather the SCAF – starts over “from the top.” After a year and a half of a messy transition that is going nowhere fast, Egyptians were stunned by two Supreme Constitutional Court rulings that […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 20, 2012

Euro End Game Begins

By Julian Lindley-French

It is beginning. The Euro end game is upon us. Last night President Hollande said at the G-Empty summit in Los Cabos that the bail-out fund should be used to ease the cost of Spanish and Italian borrowing. This is leader-speak for telling us all that the contagion that started with Greece and spread to […]

MENASource

Jun 20, 2012

House Hearing Testimony on Egypt

By Michele Dunne

Testifying today as part of a US House of Representatives Middle East Subcommittee panel on Egypt will be quite challenging in view of the breakneck pace of events.  Today a coalition of judges who set out to do a parallel count announced that they agreed with the Muslim Brotherhood that Morsy won by about 900,000 […]

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2012

The Need for NATO’s Partnerships

By R. Nicholas Burns, Damon Wilson & Jeff Lightfoot, the New Atlanticist

From R. Nicholas Burns, Damon Wilson & Jeff Lightfoot, the New Atlanticist:  [T]o address the challenges of a globalized security landscape, the Alliance also needs to do more with partners outside the Euro-Atlantic area who share its interests and values and make valued contributions to international security.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2012

The Euro’s Global Security Fallout

By Walter Russel Mead, the Wall Street Journal

From Walter Russel Mead, the Wall Street Journal:  The crisis of the euro zone is a geopolitical as well as an economic event.

Economy & Business European Union

MENASource

Jun 20, 2012

Top News: Amidst Flurry of Runoff Appeals, Independent Judges Declare Victory for Morsi

By Mara Revkin

A coalition of independent judges in Egypt said on Wednesday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Mursi has won the presidential election, beating former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to their tally.

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2012

U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say

By Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Julie Tate, the Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Julie Tate, the Washington Post:  The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 20, 2012

US and Russia Finding Ways Around UN Security Council

By Barbara Slavin

Both the US and Russia are circumventing the UN Security Council to deal with the worsening crisis in Syria. Neither is making much progress.

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2012

The International Leadership Deficit

By David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy

From David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy:  One reason today’s seeming global power void is so frustrating is that we actually live at or near the moment of the world’s greatest aggregate wealth, a time when more nations possess more engines and instruments of real power than ever before.

Economy & Business United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2012

Exiting Afghanistan: A Regional Approach

By Shuja Nawaz and Abigail Friedman

Now that the dust has settled on the Chicago Summit, it might be time to see what truly emerged from all the noise and celebration about the cooperation among NATO allies and with Afghanistan. One issue got lost in that hoopla: Afghanistan’s regional context.

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