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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

Jun 11, 2011

Solidarity: On the Front Line of Freedom’s Defense

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  Freedom will only flower if North Americans and Europeans together tend the lighthouse of hope so many millions want to believe in.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 11, 2011

Solidarity: On the Front Line of Freedom’s Defense

By Julian Lindley-French

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is right. "In the past, I’ve worried about NATO turning into a two-tiered alliance.  Between members who specialize in ‘soft’ humanitarian, development, peacekeeping, and talking tasks, and those conducting the ‘hard’ combat missions.

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

Text of Speech by Robert Gates on the Future of NATO

By Robert Gates, Department of Defense

From the U.S. Department of Defense:  “Reflections on the status and future of the transatlantic alliance” as delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Brussels, Belgium, Friday, June 10, 2011.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

Gates criticizes NATO; How much does U.S. pay?

By David S. Morgan, CBS News

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

Former US Ambassador to NATO discusses Gates’ “dismal future for the trans-Atlantic alliance”

Kurt Volker, Atlantic Council Senior Advisor, Managing Director at Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, and former US Ambassador to NATO, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s World at One Program

New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2011

Gates: NATO a Two-Tiered Alliance with a Dim, Dismal Future

By James Joyner

Rumors that Robert Gates would deliver a provocative farewell to the European allies were well founded. Going further than he had to date, he bluntly warned that NATO has become a two-tiered Alliance and said it faces a "dim, if not dismal" future. Gates has been displaying increasing frustration with the European Allies and pointedly criticized Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and […]

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

NATO governments crackdown on members of Anonymous

By Cassel Bryan-Low, the Wall Street Journal

From Cassel Bryan-Low, the Wall Street Journal:  Spanish police have arrested three alleged members of online hacker collective Anonymous as part of a global police crackdown on the group claiming responsibility for computer attacks against a broad range of targets in recent months

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on June 9

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2011

Protecting Humanitarian Interests in Cyber Conflict

By Jason Healey

Recently, the EastWest Institute held a conference that, among other topics, considered possible “markers” for cyber warfare.   As they described the potential problem, “The Geneva and Hague Conventions direct that protected entities, protected personnel and protected assets [such as doctors, ambulances, or hospitals] be marked in a clearly visible and distinctive way [e.g., with a […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 10, 2011

NATO Revises Cyber Defense Policy

By hostexploit.com

From hostexploit.com:  It was announced on Wednesday that NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, June 8-9, adopted a revised NATO Policy on Cyber Defense with further details of the next steps released today.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
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