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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

Oct 5, 2011

License to Kill?

By Harlan Ullman

Last Friday, at the retirement ceremony of U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. President Barack Obama began his valedictory remarks expanding on the news flash that U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had been killed by a U.S. airstrike. In what would be a well-deserved tribute to the admiral, the president also reminded the […]

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

Panetta: Libya mission can’t end before fighting

By Lolita C. Baldor, the AP

 From Lolita C. Baldor, the AP:  NATO’s mission in Libya cannot end as long as fighting continues, including in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on October 3

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Russian Musical Chairs: A Country on the Stop

By Ross Wilson

President Dmitri Medvedev’s public dressing down and dismissal of his country’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, on September 26 has attracted widespread attention in Russia and abroad.

Russia

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

The Train Wreck

By Shuja Nawaz

Complicated and fraught, U.S.-Pakistan relations took a turn for the worse with Adm. Mike Mullen’s Sept. 22 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in which he all but declared Pakistan as sponsoring terrorism in Afghanistan. Admiral Mullen referred to evidence linking Inter-Services Intelligence to the attacks: “Extremist organizations serving as proxies of the […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Medvedev Thinks He’s President of Russia

By James Joyner

The recent news that Vladimir Putin would be running for his old office as president of Russia was greeted by bemusement with many Western observers, myself included, who have been under the impression that Putin has been running the country from a different chair and that little would change. One person who seems not to […]

Russia

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

Libya’s interim government promises to change leaders after the fall of Gaddafi’s home city

By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone, the New York Times

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Europe’s Sovereign Liquidity Crisis

By Ben Carliner

It really is a shame about Greece. Not that the Greeks deserve sympathy for fudging the numbers to qualify for Euro accession, or their culture of tax evasion, or the political patronage that defines their public sector. Rather, it is a shame that Greece collapsed first. No other European economy is guilty of the types […]

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

John Bryan to lead host committee for the NATO/G-8 summits

By Kristen Mack, the Chicago Tribune

From Kristen Mack, the Chicago Tribune:  Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tapped a group of experienced fundraisers to help cash-strapped Chicago come up with money to host the NATO and G-8 summits next spring.

New Atlanticist

Oct 3, 2011

Cyberterror is Aspirational Blather

By Jason Healey

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative recently hosted a conference call to discuss the terrorist use of the Internet and how it has evolved in the ten years since 9/11.

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