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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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New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2010

Britannia: Bright Beacon or Bursting Bubble?

By Harlan Ullman

This is one of a few columns not preoccupied with Tuesday’s elections, either crowing or cowering over predictions and results and simmering with solemn pronouncements for the nation and world that lie ahead as consequences of how well or badly Republicans and Democrats fared. To many of us, these elections were more embarrassment than elixir […]

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New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2010

US Midterm Elections: The View From Europe

By James Joyner

 To the extent that the story was covered at all, it was mostly straight reporting of a changed domestic political landscape. Indeed, most of the reporting was little different from that in the American press. See, for example, Guardian’s "US midterm election results herald new political era as Republicans take House" and "The Tea Party has just […]

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

NATO open to Ukrainian role in missile defense – Rasmussen

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Ukraine may also take part in NATO’s missile-defense program, as the invitation to join should not be limited to Russia, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Moscow on Wednesday. "I think this invitation should be open to our Euro-Atlantic partners, so it is also an invitation to Ukraine if Ukraine so […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

Entente Frugal: There Has to Be More to Defense Policy Than Saving Money

By Iain Martin, the Wall Street Journal

From Iain Martin, the Wall Street Journal:  [I]t is worth adding a note of caution amid all the cross-channel bonhomie. Almost everyone involved seems convinced they are getting something different out of these arrangements.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

National intelligence director says budget will be moved from Pentagon control

By Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post:  Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said Tuesday that he has won a "conceptual agreement" to remove the $53 billion national intelligence budget from Pentagon control and place it under his purview by 2013

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

Poland’s Afghan mission purely training in 2012

By the AP

From the AP:  Poland’s leaders say they want the country’s military mission in Afghanistan to become a pure training mission in 2012 and to end altogether in 2014 in line with NATO plans. President Bronislaw Komorowski and members of Prime Minister Donald Tusk‘s government met Wednesday to discuss the position Poland will take at a […]

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

The Czech and Slovak governments to send more troops to Afghanistan

By the AP

From the AP:  The Czech Parliament has approved a government plan to increase the number of Czech troops in Afghanistan during the next two years. The plan, approved by Parliament’s upper house last week, won the approval of the lower house in a 106-67 vote on Wednesday. It allows the deployment of up to 720 […]

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

Greece Suspends Outgoing Airmail After Wave of Bombs

By  Michael Slackman and Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times

From Michael Slackman and Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times:  A package bomb addressed to the German chancellor and shipped by air from Greece was found in her office’s mailroom on Tuesday

NATOSource

Nov 3, 2010

NATO Sees Threats, but Is Reluctant to Say Just Who the Enemy Might Be

By Steven Erlanger, the New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, the New York Times:  NATO’s secretary general expects two headlines out of this month’s annual summit meeting in Lisbon: an agreement to build an alliance-wide missile defense system, and NATO’s own “reset” with Russia

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Nov 2, 2010

Letter bombs explode in embassies in Athens, Merkel and Sarkozy also targetted

By  Michael Slackman and Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times

From Michael Slackman and Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times:  A package containing explosives shipped by air from Greece was found in the mail room at the German chancellor’s office on Tuesday, just a few hours after letter bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens

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