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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

Aug 26, 2011

The Social-Foreign Policy Frontier

By Derek Reveron

Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning staff at the Department of State is exploring the new “foreign policy frontier” at the Atlantic. In one post, she describes how this “frontier is deeply social, as messy and unsatisfactory as that may be.” The proposition is not as controversial as it seems.

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2011

U.S. Humanitarian Activism: Libya and Syria

By Don Snow

The remaining hot spots from the Arab Spring are in Libya and Syria. In both cases, popular uprisings erupted against tyrannical governments inspired at least partially by the Arab Spring events that began in Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt and elsewhere. Distinguishing characteristics of these two cases, however, have been the continuing brutality of […]

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NATOSource

Aug 25, 2011

NATO has proved the doubters wrong

By George Grant, the Telegraph

From George Grant, the Telegraph:  They said that airpower alone would never prove sufficient to dislodge Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi without the presence of international troops on the ground. Events over the past 48 hours have proven that analysis to be patently false.

NATOSource

Aug 25, 2011

NATO Fails in Libya

By James Joyner, the National Interest

From James Joyner, the National Interest:  There are twenty-six other militaries in NATO. Fourteen spent more than Libya’s $1.5 billion on defense in 2010

NATOSource

Aug 25, 2011

Pentagon: US, NATO not in manhunt for Gaddafi

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns, the AP

From Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns, the AP:  Marine Col. David Lapan said the U.S. is conducting aerial surveillance of Libya in support of NATO’s military mission to protect civilians from attack by government forces. But he said this does not amount to targeting Gadhafi

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New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2011

Libya’s Oil After Gaddafi

By Boyko Nitzov

Getting Libya’s oil flowing again is of crucial importance for the country’s recovery, stability, and prosperity. The proper management of the revenues derived from the petroleum sector is likely to define the government’s success or failure. Getting it right will be a technically difficult and politically sensitive task.

Libya

New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2011

Libya Not Vindication for NATO But A Wake-up Call

By James Joyner

Scores of op-eds are springing forth declaring that the happy events taking place in Tripoli have vindicated the much-maligned NATO alliance and its performance in Libya. I’m an Atlanticist by conviction and profession, but the notion that helping take out Muammar Qaddafi after six months of heavy fighting proves much of anything is absurd. According […]

Libya

New Atlanticist

Aug 25, 2011

Why Libya Sceptics Were Proved Badly Wrong

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

Let us do a thought experiment. Imagine the UN did not vote to authorise the use of force in Libya in March. Nato did nothing; Colonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down […]

Libya

NATOSource

Aug 25, 2011

Purchase of Tiny Canadian UAV by Libyan Rebels Reveals International Network

By Ian Austen, the New York Times

From Ian Austen, the New York Times:  Libyan rebels have been coordinating their attacks using a Canadian-made, unmanned surveillance aircraft, the drone’s manufacturer announced Tuesday.

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NATOSource

Aug 25, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 24

By NATO

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