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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

Jan 23, 2012

Capitalism Sowing Seeds of its Own Destruction

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“Capitalism in Crisis,” the front-page banner headline shouted. “The code that forms a bar to harmony” was the inside-page headline, suggesting a secret code that concealed a sinister plot to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer. “The enrichment of bankers, corporate chiefs, flash traders and their cronies is testing tolerance of inequality,” said […]

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

France Offers Heron for NATO UAV program

By Pierre Tran, Defense News

From Pierre Tran, Defense News:  France is offering the Heron TP as its contribution in kind to the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance program, but technical and financial problems related to adapting the medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV to French standards are holding up a deal with Dassault and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

Drones Technology & Innovation

MENASource

Jan 23, 2012

Video: Official Election Results and First Parliamentary Session

By Mara Revkin

Egypt’s newly elected 508-member People’s Assembly convened for its first session on January 23. New parliamentarians took their constitutional oaths berore voting to elect a new parliamentary speaker (Brotherhood member Saad al-Katatny, winning with 399 votes) and two deputies (voting is still underway). Official results for party list-races were released on January 21, confirming the Islamist […]

MENASource

Jan 23, 2012

Top News: Islamist-Dominated Parliament Convenes for Opening Session

By Mara Revkin

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

Major European pullout could start in October

By Michelle Tan and Richard Sandza, the Military Times

From Michelle Tan and Richard Sandza, the Military Times:  As many as 10,000 soldiers — and as many as 25,000 dependents — are expected to withdraw from Europe as the U.S. juggles shrinking budgets and force reductions with maintaining strong relationships with its allies, officials said. On Jan. 12, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

Alexander Hamilton vs. Ron Paul on Isolationism

By Matt Spalding, the Heritage Foundation

From Matt Spalding, the Heritage Foundation:  Supporters of Ron Paul have re-launched an old ad promoting the old idea of American isolationism.  “We now are a nation known to start war,” Paul is quoted as saying.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

NATO’s Afghan alliance unhinged by growing mutual mistrust

By Jon Boone, the Guardian

From Jon Boone, the Guardian:  Mutual mistrust and contempt between local and foreign forces in Afghanistan that often borders on hatred is one of the main reasons why Afghan troops increasingly turn their guns on their Nato comrades, a damning report has found.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2012

Europe’s first experimental stealth combat drone is rolled out

By David Cenciotti, the Aviationist

From David Cenciotti, the Aviationist:  On Jan. 20, the nEUROn, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), was officially presented by Charles Edelstenne, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation

Drones Technology & Innovation

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2012

Empathy with the Ayatollah

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

“Empathize with your enemy.” It is the first of eleven lessons offered by the former US Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara in the award-winning 2002 documentary “Fog of War.”

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2012

NATO concerned about build up of Russian forces near its borders

By AFP

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