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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

Dec 7, 2011

Of Islamists, Elections, and the Economy: A Closer Look

By Michele Dunne

Tom Friedman’s column in The New York Times on December 7 supports an argument—that liberal forces in Egypt did less well than Islamists in the first round of elections because their anti-military protests had alienated “some more traditional-minded Egyptian voters, who still cling to the army as a source of stability”—that is emerging as part […]

NATOSource

Dec 7, 2011

General asks Obama for year-long pause in troop withdrawals from Afghanistan

By Ben Farmer, the Telegraph

From Ben Farmer, the Telegraph:  Gen John Allen is opposing Barack Obama’s strategy of steadily pulling out troops over the next three years and argues a premature decline will jeopardise security gains made in the past year.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

MENASource

Dec 7, 2011

News Update: December 7, 2011

By Mara Revkin

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won 34 of the 52 individual seats that were contested in the runoff round on December 5-6, raising the FJP’s projected share of parliamentary seats to nearly two thirds. Meanwhile, the SCAF issued a decree on December 7 delegating presidential powers to Prime Minister Kamal […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 7, 2011

What the Russian Duma Elections Could Mean for the Future

By Anna Borshchevskaya

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party must feel embarrassed.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Dec 7, 2011

Pearl Harbor Redux

By Harlan Ullman

Seventy years ago today, the Japanese navy launched strikes against Pearl Harbor sinking much of “Battleship Row,” awakening a sleeping giant and forcing the United States into World War II with catastrophic effects for the Axis powers.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Dec 7, 2011

A Nuclear Option for Saudi Arabia?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Afghanistan expects U.S. aid to flow without interruption for six more years following the final U.S. troop withdrawal at the end of 2014 — three years hence. Nothing is less certain.

Afghanistan Nuclear Nonproliferation

NATOSource

Dec 7, 2011

Secretary General describes Russian countermeasures to NATO missile defense as a “waste”

By Anne Gearan and Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Anne Gearan and Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  Russian countermeasures to NATO’s ballistic missile defense system would be a waste of money because they would be aimed at an "artificial enemy," NATO’s top official said Wednesday. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened last month to deploy missiles to Kaliningrad and other areas of Russia to be […]

MENASource

Dec 7, 2011

Is Egypt Turning Islamist?

By Ahmed Morsy

In retrospect, it’s almost a miracle that last week’s elections went forward as planned with massive turnout and relatively few irregularities, despite predictions of violence and calls for postponing elections after a week of lethal clashes in downtown Cairo and other parts of the country.  While Egyptians are relieved that elections were conducted relatively fairly […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 7, 2011

Pearl Harbor: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

By Julian Lindley-French

Seventy years ago today at 0600 hours Pacific Time on December 7, 1941 Captain Mitsuo Fuchida launched Operation Z from the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi, flagship of the attack fleet.

Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Dec 6, 2011

Brotherhood Denies Presidential Aspirations, Again

By Mara Revkin

As Egyptian liberals and U.S. policy-makers nervously eye the prospect of an Islamist-dominated parliament, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders are trying to assuage fears that the group aspires to hold a monopoly on political power. In a televised interview on December 6, Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie reiterated his previous pledge that the Brotherhood will not field […]

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