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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 6, 2012

Top News: Clashes Continue in Cairo after Deadly Soccer Riot

By Mara Revkin

Violent clashes between protesters and security forces resumed near the Interior Ministry building late on February 5 in the fourth day of clashes since a deadly soccer riot in Port Said last week that killed at least 73 people.

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

Panetta: ‘Our military footprint in Europe will remain larger than in any other region in the world’

By Leon Panetta, U.S. Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, U.S. Department of Defense:  For Europe, the U.S. defense strategy reaffirms the lasting strategic importance of the transatlantic partnership with the United States. 

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Feb 6, 2012

China Pivot or Pirouette?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Amid the gazillion blogs, tweets, Facebookies and LinkedIn aficionados, it has become even harder to find reasoned and convincing arguments for what kind of military drawdown would do least harm to the United States’ global posture. Even learned think tanks are tweeting. Retired admirals and generals, professors and journalists, everyone is weighing in with elite […]

China United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

NATO Will Switch On Its (Tiny) Missile Shield in May

By Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room

From Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room:  Starting in May, Europe will have the beginning of an operational shield against ballistic missiles, courtesy of NATO. The system will be modest at first, not much more than SM-3 interceptor missiles aboard the U.S.S. Monterrey, a ship enabled with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system and stationed in the […]

United States and Canada

MENASource

Feb 6, 2012

Can Egypt Avoid Pakistan’s Fate?

By Michele Dunne and Shuja Nawaz

One year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the constitution-writing process to serve its narrow interests. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, where the military has also held sway for more than half the country’s existence — for much of that time, with […]

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

Obama may pick Lute for European command

By Gregge Jaffe, the Washington Post

From Gregge Jaffe, the Washington Post:  The Obama administration is considering nominating retired Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute as the next commander of the U.S. European Command, a move that could stir controversy among some senior military officials who have clashed with Lute over war policy. Lute, who retired from the military in 2010, is currently […]

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

Clinton calls for coalition of ‘friends of democratic Syria’

By Matthew Lee, AP

From Matthew Lee, AP:  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Sunday for "friends of democratic Syria" to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad’s regime, previewing the possible formation of a formal group of likeminded nations to coordinate assistance to the Syrian opposition.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

NATO Doesn’t Yet Know How To Protect Its Networks

By Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room

From Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room:  Here at NATO Headquarters, the 2007 denial-of-service attack that took websites of member nation Estonia offline forms something of a template for worry.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2012

Clinton: ‘Europe is and remains America’s partner of first resort’

By Hillary Clinton, Department of State

From Hillary Clinton, Department of State:  I have heard all the talk about where Europe fits in to America’s global outlook.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2012

NATO’s Victory in Libya: The Right Way to Run an Intervention

By Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, U.S. Mission to NATO

From Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, U.S. Mission to NATO:  NATO’s operation in Libya has rightly been hailed as a model intervention.

United States and Canada
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