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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 7, 2012

Egyptian Sovereignty: A Legitimate Concern or a Thin Veil for Repression?

By Tarek Radwan

US-Egyptian relations have suffered the worst blow since the Camp David Peace Accords were signed in 1979 due to the unrelenting position of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of International Cooperation to pursue the prosecution (or rather, persecution) of individuals working for foreign-funded NGOs in Egypt. Despite the Obama administration’s repeated warnings against […]

MENASource

Feb 7, 2012

Will US-Egypt Relations Rupture Over NGO Probe?

By Mara Revkin

A week before Valentine’s Day, the Egyptian government’s brazen antagonism of American-funded NGOs has proven the old adage: “You can’t buy love,” not even with the 1.3 billion in annual military aid that the United States has lavished on its military.

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Divisions within Obama administration growing over how to end Afghan war

By Karen DeYoung, the Washington Post

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Can Germany Summon the Will to Lead?

By John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune:  Mr. Putin’s goal is not only to paint an American-led enemy in time for next month’s vote, but to get the West to back off on Iran and on deployment of NATO’s missile shield in Europe through threats and by sowing the notion that America is shoving its […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Feb 7, 2012

Top News: Military Moves Up Date of Presidential Election

By Mara Revkin

Under growing pressure for an expedited transfer of power to civilians, the SCAF has agreed to move up the start date for presidential candidate registration to March 10, originally scheduled for April 15.

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

U.S. Sees Europe as Not Pulling Its Weight Militarily

By Judy Dempsey, the International Herald Tribune

From Judy Dempsey, the International Herald Tribune:  When Thomas de Maizière described the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship to a packed audience in Munich, he shied away from unpalatable truths.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 7, 2012

Fixing All the World’s Problems

By Bernard Finel

Okay, I’m king for a day, and I am going to fix all the world’s problems.

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Transatlantic Relationship Words at Odds with Deeds

By James Joyner, the New Atlanticist

From James Joyner, the New Atlanticist:  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said all the right things about the transatlantic relationship at the Munich Security Conference. Alas, Panetta made a mockery of them on his way there.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Britain and France had to insist US allow their warships to join Iran flotilla

By James Kirkup, the Telegraph

From James Kirkup, the Telegraph:  Defence sources have revealed that the Americans only relented and allowed a Royal Navy frigate to join the mission following an intervention from Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 6, 2012

Dean Rusk on NATO: ‘The surest way to lose the peace is to destroy or weaken the instruments that are preserving the peace’

By Dean Rusk, U.S. Department of State

From Dean Rusk, U.S. Department of State:  The facts of the world situation require that NATO remains strong and alert. They require that free nations not repeat the tragic errors of the past — that they not make one-sided reductions in defense that tempt adversaries to resort once again to force or threats ….. that […]

United States and Canada
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