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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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NATOSource

Jul 7, 2011

Erdogan may subordinate Turkey’s General Staff to Defense Ministry

By Zaman

From Zaman:  The replacement of former Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül with a younger and more dynamic Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy, İsmet Yılmaz

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2011

Turkey Appoints New Defense Minister

By Burake Ege Bekdil and Umit Enginsoy, Defense News

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2011

Stop searching for an Obama Doctrine

By Fareed Zakaria, the Washington Post

From Fareed Zakaria, the Washington Post:  Every few months, commentators find a new grand strategy that animates Barack Obama.

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2011

The US must end its illegal war in Libya now

By Dennis Kucinich, the Guardian

From Dennis Kucinich, the Guardian:  This week, I am sponsoring legislation in the United States Congress that will end US military involvement in Libya

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jul 6, 2011

Former NATO SecGen: We’re not doing the job in Libya

By Robert Zeliger, Foreign Policy

From Robert Zeliger, Foreign Policy:  The NATO campaign in Libya is "not going as well as it should," says George Robertson, the former U.K. defense secretary who served as NATO’s secretary general from 1999 until 2003.

NATOSource

Jul 6, 2011

Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan, was it worth it?

By Stephen Saideman

From Stephen Saideman:  I think Canada made a difference while it was there, improving conditions in Kandahar even if the quarterly reports might over-state the gains.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Jul 6, 2011

Keeping Up With Mideast Changes

By Barbara Slavin

The Obama administration took two important steps last week that demonstrated much-needed realism and nuance in the evolving U.S. relationship with political Islam. First, on Wednesday, it unveiled a new counterterrorism strategy that focuses squarely on Al Qaeda and its affiliates. It acknowledges that other groups, like Hezbollah and Hamas, might menace U.S. allies and […]

New Atlanticist

Jul 6, 2011

The (New) Morality of the (New) American Way of War

By Harlan Ullman

War, according to the great Prussian military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz was most profoundly a conflict of wills through an admixture of policy with “other means.” But Clausewitz never fully defined “other means.” There was little need. For most of history, war was a contest between more or less like military forces. Defeating the enemy […]

NATOSource

Jul 6, 2011

NATO server hacked, files published

By Darren Pauli, ITNews

From Darren Pauli, ITNews:  A NATO server appears to have been hacked by a group that claims to have rooted the server with a private zero day exploit. A private zero day exploit is a vulnerability discovered in a system that is not disclosed publicly before being used in an attack. A 50 MB backup […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jul 6, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on July 5

By NATO

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