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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 22, 2011

Humanitarian missions can be cruel

By Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post

From Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post:  President Obama made the intervention possible by giving his approval and committing U.S. assets.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2011

The military interventions we don’t plan for — those to protect civilians

By Sarah Sewall and Anthony Zini, the Washington Post

From Sarah Sewall and Anthony Zini, the Washington Post:  If the United States is serious about protecting civilians, though, it needs to address the kinds of conundrums that are emerging in Libya

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Europe Falters in Efforts to Implement the UN Resolution in Libya

By Hugh De Santis

NATO’s management of the UN-sanctioned campaign to take “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians is looking more futile by the day. Reminiscent of Europe’s hapless effort to assert leadership following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, internal bickering has once again precluded military cohesion and made mockery of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 21

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Chinese Takeaway

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

While World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis," China has broken ground and taken over the economic future of a country whose nearest island to the U.S. mainland is Bimini, only 50 miles away. The Nassau Guardian editorialized: "The Bahamas has fallen fully into the […]

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/22/11

By Klee Aiken

With the White House looking to engage Moscow over tactical nuclear weapons reductions, Russia is out and about with Prime Minister Putin chatting with Vice President Joe Biden and President Medvedev meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Happy Birthday to Belgium on the first birthday of its record breaking stint without a government. Joyeux […]

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2011

U.S. and French Submarine Commanders Meet

By Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen, EUCOM

From Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen, EUCOM:  The Commander of the French navy’s Submarine Forces met with Commander Submarine, Allied Naval Forces South

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2011

NATO’s strategic incoherence costs Libyan lives

By James Lindsay, CNN

From James Lindsay, CNN:  Britain, France, and Italy took a step deeper into the Libyan civil war this week by announcing that they will send military advisers to aid the beleaguered rebels.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

NATO Denies Reported Bomb Shortage in Libya

By Pierre Tran, DefenseNews

From Pierre Tran, DefenseNews:  Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, the chairman of NATO’s military committee, denied that the air operation in Libya was running short of aircraft or munitions.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

Obama approves attacks by armed Predators in Libya

By Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service

From Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service:  [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates and Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefed reporters at the Pentagon.

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