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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

Apr 25, 2011

Humanitarian Intervention: The Views of President Obama, Candidate Obama, and Secretary Clinton

By the White House

From the White House:  Excerpt from President Barack Obama’s Address to the Nation on Libya, March 28, 2011.

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

Italian jets joining NATO air strikes in Libya

By the BBC

From the BBC:  Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has approved the use of his country’s air force in Nato’s Libya mission.

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

Turkey’s relationship with Iran influenced NATO agreement

By Tehran Times

New Atlanticist

Apr 25, 2011

Ukraine: Bread Basket of China?

By Mary Micevych

As Ukraine seeks to double its global grain export, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov used his visit this week to a trade summit in China as a platform to showcase his country’s agricultural investment and trade potential. Although the EU remains Ukraine’s largest trading partner, Azarov used the summit to set the sights further abroad, pursuing […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

NATO’s Last Chance

By Andrew A. Michta, the American Interests

From Andrew A. Michta, the American Interests:  As spring 2011 bursts into bloom, the NATO alliance finds itself withering on the vine.

New Atlanticist

Apr 25, 2011

U.S. ‘Kleptocracy’ Initiative Key to Mideast Future

By Mark Brzezinski

Outrage at corruption is the common denominator of the upheaval sweeping the Middle East. It was corruption at the fruit market, where a fruit vendor set himself ablaze after being exploited by arrogant police, which sparked the revolution that ousted Tunisia’s leader. In Egypt, university graduates who couldn’t get a job without some connection to […]

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

Westerwelle’s Woes

By Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel

From Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel:  By contrast, the professor [Christian Hacke of the University of Bonn] contends that [German Foreign Minister Guido] Westerwelle — who was a protege of former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher — has embraced a "neo-German Wilhelminism,"

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 24

By NATO

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 25, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/25/11

By Klee Aiken

With the rise of populist parties across the continent, is Europe moving the the right? ask the Spiegel Staff.  Russia makes long term plans in Sevastopol, NATO bombs Gaddafi’s compound, and German Foreign Minister Westerwelle comes under fire.

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2011

Which issues divide NATO?

By Jörg Himmelreich, Spiegel

From Jörg Himmelreich, Spiegel:  Today, the 28 NATO member states have profoundly different opinions about what the alliance’s future course should be

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