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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 21, 2011

EUCOM interested in redeployment of UAVs from Southwest Asia

By Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring

From Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring:  The Pentagon is studying how to expand the use of highly effective combat drone aircraft from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to other commands

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NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

Britain seeking deployment of US UAV’s to Libya

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Liam Fox, Britain’s defence secretary, will travel to the US next week to try to persuade the Obama administration to provide fresh air assets

Drones Technology & Innovation

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

NATO’s Four Categories of Power

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  Coalitions are fast replacing alliances as the place where real security business is done.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Securing North Africa’s oasis of stability

By J. Peter Pham

As the cloud of uncertainty continues to hover North Africa—with the ultimate outcomes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt still to be determined and unrest spreading in Algeria, especially in the Kabylie region, to say nothing of the fate of the revolt in Libya—it is somewhat befuddling that the Obama administration has not done […]

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NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 20

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Obama Administration and Pentagon Clashing Over Libya

By James Joyner

HuffPo’s David Wood begins a post titled "Obama White House, Pentagon At Odds Over Libya Policy" with this: After 26 months in office, President Obama still has not forged a smoothly working national security team that can both nimbly pounce on military crises and deftly manage festering problems, say current and former U.S. officials. As in previous […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

The Franglosphere – No, Not Bad BBC Science Fiction

By Julian Lindley-French

I was in London this week and two things happened that suggest l’albion perfide might be about to do the dirty on both America and France. First, in high-level meetings in the Ministry of Defence British officials confirmed that the disastrous 2010 Strategic Security and Defence Review (Strategic Pretence and Impecunity Review) had been the […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/21/11

By Klee Aiken

While France might be "positive" about recognizing a Palestinian state,  the Economist suggests they are not so positive about their own future, possibly wrongly so. The international community struggles with the way forward in Libya and Britain and the Netherlands rebel against a proposed five percent EU budget increase.

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

Can NATO save Misrata?

By the Economist

From the Economist:  NATO’s problem is that it currently lacks both the means and the mandate to do much to help Misrata.

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2011

Obama White House, Pentagon At Odds Over Libya Policy

By David Wood, the Huffington Post

From David Wood, the Huffington Post:  As in previous administrations, much of the problem lies in the friction between civilians working in the White House and military officers

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