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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

May 12, 2011

Dwindling defense spending in eastern Europe

By the Economist

From the Economist:   Once they lobbied hard to join NATO. After Russia’s war with Georgia, they begged for coherent plans to defend them.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

German Foreign Policy: The unadventurous eagle

By the Economist

From the Economist:  “Germany has entered a new era of ambivalence and nationalist calculation,” wrote Roger Cohen, a New York Times columnist.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

The Lawfulness of Killing Bin Laden

By Robert Bracknell, the New Atlanticist

From Robert Bracknell, the New Atlanticist:  Killing bin Ladin was not an extrajudicial execution, a murder, or a war crime.  It was a combat engagement lawful under U.S. and international legal authority – full stop.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

NATO ships defend Misrata port from attack by pro-Gaddafi boats

By NATO

From NATO:   In the early hours of Thursday 12 May 2011, while conducting Embargo patrols in the waters off the coast of Libya, NATO warships participated in a coordinated defence against a small boat attack threatening the port city of Misrata.

United Kingdom

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

White House releases new cybersecurity proposal

By the White House

From the White House:  This legislative proposal is the latest achievement in the steady stream of progress we are making in securing cyberspace and completes another near-term action item identified in the Cyberspace Policy Review. . . . Protecting our Nation’s Critical Infrastructure   Our safety and way of life depend upon our critical infrastructure […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 12, 2011

Pakistan: Paradigm Lost

By Shuja Nawaz

The United States’ raid deep into the heart of Pakistan on May 2 (local time) to terminate Osama bin Laden without the knowledge of Pakistani authorities and military was a shock to the bilateral relationship on the one hand and to the status quo inside Pakistan on the other. Things cannot be the same in […]

New Atlanticist

May 12, 2011

The Lawfulness of Killing Bin Laden

By Robert Bracknell

Much has been made of the recent revelations that Osama bin Laden was unarmed at the moment he was killed by U.S. special operations forces in close quarters battle.  Let us put this issue to rest with dispatch, once and for all:  Killing bin Ladin was not an extrajudicial execution, a murder, or a war […]

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

NATO and Russia need “cooperation between two independent missile defence systems”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  The NATO-Russia partnership must be rooted in realism and concrete cooperation – but it also needs a clear vision.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

David Cameron: begin troop withdrawal from Afghanistan now

By James Kirkup, the Telegraph

From James Kirkup, the Telegraph:  Following the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Prime Minister is increasingly determined to start bringing the Afghan mission to an end.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 12, 2011

Libya stalemate leaves NATO without “Plan B”

By  Jonathan Marcus, the BBC

From Jonathan Marcus, the BBC:  [L]ong-time Nato analyst Prof Sean Kay is worried about just such a post-Gaddafi scenario.

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