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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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Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2011

Atlantic Update 5/6/11

By Klee Aiken

Rough seas ahead for Russia’s attempts to procure Mistral class warships from France, as further disagreement over licensing and sensitive technology stall progress. Poland looks to emphasize European Union expansion in its upcoming stint as EU President, but with Icesave victims Great Britain and the Netherlands in the mix, including Iceland in its plans could […]

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

German media criticizes Obama and US for death of Osama bin Laden

By Charles Lane, the Washington Post

From Charles Lane, the Washington Post: [M]any of Obama’s erstwhile Euro-fans are feeling a twinge of buyer’s remorse.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2011

2011 Awards Dinner: You Had to Be There

By James Joyner

Atlantic Council awards dinners are filled with speeches from world leaders about weighty topics of global import. But what makes them so special is the personal interactions and the lighter moments, touching stories, and shared connections.

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2011

History Matters in War and Politics

By Harlan Ullman

This column was almost pre-empted by news of the daring “kill or capture” raid by U.S. Navy SEALs against Osama bin Laden. But, as the Raymond Davis case took time to resolve, the tough and obvious political and strategic answers to what Pakistan knew or did not know about the now deceased al-Qaida leader’s whereabouts […]

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

EU battlegroups wait for Libya operation “unlikely ever to be launched”

By Toby Vogel, the European Voice

European Union International Organizations
Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2011

Atlantic Update 5/5/11

By Klee Aiken

Europe and the United States set their sights spacewards, although if EU President Herman van Rompuy is right the EU might be "too depressed" to muster the innovation for such a task. Russia further clarifies what it hopes to get from NATO-Russian cooperation and Europe looks to ensure its influence in Africa as Chinese presence […]

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 4

By NATO

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

New lead negotiator on missile defense?

By Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring

From Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring:  Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, who has been leading U.S.-Russian missile defense talks that are largely kept secret from Congress and the public, was given a demotion of sorts

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

NATO chief says he favors financing Libyan rebels

By Alessandra Rizzo and Don Melvin, the AP

From Alessandra Rizzo and Don Melvin, the AP:   [S]upport for giving money to the Libyan rebels — presumably to buy arms, equipment and munitions with which to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi — seemed to be growing

NATOSource

May 4, 2011

Why We Must Continue the Fight Against Terror

By Jose Maria Aznar, the Wall Street Journal

United States and Canada
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