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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

Jun 4, 2012

Britain fears NATO military gaps after US shift to Asia

By NewsCore

United Kingdom United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2012

Is the Eurozone Really in Danger?

By Sarwar Kashmeri

The euro is in danger. Greece’s exit is imminent. Are Portugal and Spain next? That’s what the media headlines tell us. Brown Brothers Harriman’s Marc Chandler begs to differ. He tells Sarwar Kashmeri, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, that the glue that holds the eurozone together is stronger than the media reports. (8.5 minutes)

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

Jun 3, 2012

How deep is the partisan divide over multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy?

By Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, and William Inboden, Foreign Affairs

From Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, and William Inboden, Foreign Affairs: [H]ow deep is the partisan divide over the place of multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy?

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 3, 2012

Political Verdict in Mubarak Trial Fuels Unrest as Election Approaches

By Merit Al-Sayed

With only two weeks to go before the decisive run-off round of Egypt’s presidential election, voters are presented with a polarizing choice between an Islamist Candidate and a former military man who served as former president Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister in the final days of his embattled regime.  As revolutionary forces threaten to boycott […]

MENASource

Jun 2, 2012

Mubarak and the State of Emergency Sacrificed

By Michele Dunne

In another of the strange turns that have characterized Egypt’s post revolutionary trajectory, suddenly this week Hosni Mubarak and the state of emergency that typified and sustained his 30 year rule were set aside with 48 hours of each other.  Although the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) never had the courage to lift […]

MENASource

Jun 2, 2012

Developing Democracy in Egypt: A Work in Progress

By Catriona Knapman

The presidential elections were met with high expectations in Egypt. Yet the results of the polls have brought much disillusion and disappointment, forcing second-round voters to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate (Mohamed Morsy) and an ex-regime candidate (Ahmed Shafik), who together won only half of the vote in the first round. After the official […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2012

Stuxnets are Not in the US National Interest: An Arsonist Calling for Better Fire Codes

By Jason Healey

The United States government has apparently struck a blow against the Iranian nuclear enrichment capability by using Stuxnet to disable centrifuges.   While this cyber weapon destroyed centrifuges and seized up the enrichment process, the cost in American cyber power ultimately will not have been worth these limited gains.

Cybersecurity Iran

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2012

Egypt’s Prospects for Democracy

By Michele Dunne

Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council‘s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, sat down with Reza Akhlaghi, senior writer at Foreign Policy Association Blogs, to discuss the Egyptian elections. What, in your opinion, were the key driving factors behind the mass revolt against Hosni Mubarak’s regime? Egyptians were disappointed by the fact that […]

North Africa

NATOSource

Jun 1, 2012

Cartwright: “We built the F-35 with absolutely no protection for it from a cyber standpoint”

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense

From Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense:  [Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James] Cartwright fears the Pentagon’s most expensive program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, might prove to be as vulnerable to enemy hackers as the old under-armored Humvees were to roadside bombs.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2012

On American Military Intervention in Syria

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The massacre in Houla and other regime atrocities that have been unearthed do not change American strategic interests with respect to Syria. Horrible as they are, they don’t tell us anything new about the nature of this odious regime. If it was a bad idea to intervene prior to the latest revelations, then it remains […]

Syria
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