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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 15, 2011

French Defense Minister wants allies to target “decision centers”

By Reuters

From Reuters:  France is pushing for NATO approval to extend military strikes on Muammar Gaddafi’s army to strategic logistical targets, to try to break a deadlock in Libya’s civil war as the civilian death toll mounts.

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

NATO and Ukraine discuss security cooperation

By NATO

Ukraine

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

NATO and Georgia reaffirm each other

By NATO

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

Welcome to NATO Operation Protecting Disunity

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist: The statement is a masterpiece of NATO speak and thus needs interpreting into plain English. This is something that has not been seen at NATO Headquarters since the Scottish occupied it back in the early naughties – it was plain but incomprehensible. … The “valuable” contribution made by OUP members […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Apr 15, 2011

IMF Tackling Global Trade Imbalances

By Susan Schadler

Approaching a weekend of IMF spring meetings it is sensible to ask whether the agenda is right. The IMF will roll out a full agenda of initiatives to address global imbalances. These are important issues, but form a narrow agenda given current global vulnerabilities. In placing all its efforts in one objective, the IMF’s spring […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 15, 2011

Welcome to NATO Operation Protecting Disunity

By Julian Lindley-French

Don’t you just love NATO speak? Yesterday in Berlin NATO Foreign Ministers settled down to a working lunch to discuss ‘progress’ on Operation Unified Protector (OUP) in the skies over Libya. Personally, I have never been able to eat and think which could explain the ensuing Statement on Libya, which in its brevity and truth […]

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

NATO made the right call on helping Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post:  [T]he international community and NATO had to act in Libya — and we did so quickly.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

U.S. claims success in “most challenging” missile intercept test

By Reuters

From Reuters:  The U.S. military said it had successfully completed its "most challenging" missile intercept test yet, using Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co hardware to shoot down an intermediate-range ballistic target over the Pacific.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 15, 2011

Is Libya the end of NATO?

By Steven Metz, the New Republic

From Steven Metz, the New Republic:  As new challenges arose around the world, NATO’s role and worth became increasingly unclear.

United Kingdom United States and Canada
Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 15, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/15/11

By Klee Aiken

President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron, and President Sarkozy appeal to the public in today’s New York Times, Le Figaro, and Times of London, while NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen writes in to The Washington Post, arguing that "NATO made the right call in Libya." The NATO theme continues throughout the papers as yesterday’s Foreign […]

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