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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

Apr 30, 2012

How Risky Was the Osama bin Laden Raid?

By James Joyner

CFR’s Micah Zenko asks, “How Risky Was the Osama bin Laden Raid?”

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2012

Pakistan: The Hotel California of World Politics

By Julian Lindley-French

Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population of some 187 million of whom between 25 and 30 percent live below the UN-defined poverty line situated in just about the most fraught place on the planet. This weekend’s tragic and brutal murder of Red Cross aid worker Khalil Dale has once again brought home how […]

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NATOSource

Apr 30, 2012

NATO and the Information War in Libya

By John Pollock, Technology Review

From John Pollock, Technology Review:  Publicly, NATO and its secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, do use social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and a video blog—albeit as an adjunct to standard press-office fare.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2012

NATO Chief: “Europe must invest sufficiently in our common security”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  Europe cannot afford to be inward-looking or self-absorbed.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2012

Poland assumes NATO Baltic air policing duty

By the AP

From the AP:  Poland’s air force will continue policing the airspace of three Baltic countries as part of its role in a NATO mission, despite one of them — Lithuania — refusing to attend joint talks, the president said on April 17.

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2012

Hungary Through the Mirror

By Kurt Volker

Read any column about Hungary today and it will tell you how Prime Minister Viktor Orban is tearing up checks and balances and asserting one-sided control over Hungary’s democratic institutions. The European Union, the IMF, the Venice Commission and the U.S. government have all responded, demanding changes in many of the laws hastily waved through […]

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NATOSource

Apr 28, 2012

Syria condemns Turkey for NATO talk

By the Daily Star

From the Daily Star:  The foreign ministry on Saturday accused Turkey of provocation with its talk of asking NATO to help protect its border with Syria, saying such action went against the U.N.-backed peace plan.

NATOSource

Apr 28, 2012

Edogan repeats warning to Syria of NATO action if ‘border violations’ continue

By Hurriyet Daily News

From Hurriyet Daily News:  Turkey warned Syria today not to repeat border violations, implying that it could use force to protect its border and call on NATO to respond to a potential Syrian attack.

NATOSource

Apr 28, 2012

Deputy PM: Turkey helping develop Tunisian security and intelligence units

By Gozde Nur Donat, Today’s Zaman

NATOSource

Apr 27, 2012

Why We Need a Smart NATO

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  The simple fact of strategic life is this. We live in a world of some seven billion plus souls all with legitimate needs and aspirations organized unevenly into more unstable and failing states than at any time since 1648

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