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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

Feb 15, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood Claims US Funding “Destroying Egypt”

By Mara Revkin

The Muslim Brotherhood’s weekly statement claimed that the United States has spent over $105 million since the revolution on “destroying Egypt and its society.”

NATOSource

Feb 15, 2012

France presses for Syria aid corridors at U.N.

By John Irish, Reuters

From John Irish, Reuters:  France said Wednesday it wanted the U.N. Security Council to set up humanitarian corridors in Syria to alleviate civilian suffering and that it was negotiating with Russia on a new U.N. resolution on the conflict.

NATOSource

Feb 15, 2012

1.5 million Soviet/Russian soldiers involved in foreign interventions since WWII

By RIA Novosti.&n

From RIA Novosti. 

MENASource

Feb 15, 2012

29 Egyptian NGOs Echo U.S. Condemnation of Civil Society Crackdown

By Mara Revkin

On February 15, 29 Egyptian civil society organizations issued a scathing denunciation of the government’s "politically motivated" legal assault on 43 NGO employees, debunking the myth — put forward by Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga and other architects of the crackdown — that Egyptians overwhelmingly view foreign-funded NGOs as a threat to national […]

NATOSource

Feb 15, 2012

Vershbow becomes first American to serve as Deputy Secretary General of NATO

By NATO

From NATO:  Ambassador Alexander Vershbow takes office as NATO Deputy Secretary General. The NATO Deputy Secretary General is the Alliance’s second most senior international civil servant.

MENASource

Feb 15, 2012

Egypt’s Déjà-Vu: NGO Case Reminiscent of Previous Politicized Trials

By Michele Dunne and Mara Revkin

Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), catapulted from the barracks to the executive branch after removing Hosni Mubarak last year, has faced a steep learning curve in unfamiliar political territory. While the SCAF continues to display ineptitude in handling a series of crises, most recently the soccer-related violence in Port Said and […]

Europe After The Vote

Feb 15, 2012

Who Will Pay for Greece?

By Julian Lindley-French

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit”, Aristotle once famously wrote. He could have been talking of Greece today.

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Feb 15, 2012

In Egypt, Follow the Advice of President Theodore Roosevelt

By Sarwar Kashmeri

Almost exactly 100 years ago President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the General Assembly of Cairo University. Egypt was then, as it is today, in political turmoil as nationalist groups seethed under the rule of the British Crown, clamoring for freedom. The nationalists felt that the very act of deliverance from the Colonial power would translate […]

North Africa

NATOSource

Feb 15, 2012

Officials from Gulf states discuss partnership with NATO

By NATO

From NATO:  NATO permanent representatives met senior officials from Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the four countries which are part of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), at a seminar at NATO HQ on February 14

NATOSource

Feb 15, 2012

State Department: ‘the United States has no better partner than Europe’

By Philip Gordon, U.S. Department of State

From Philip Gordon, U.S. Department of State:  From the earliest days of his Administration, President Obama has prioritized the re-establishment of strong transatlantic relations.

United States and Canada
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