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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

May 3, 2010

Greece to Cut Defense Expenses, But Keep Balance with Turkey

By Zaman

From Zaman: Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos has said his government was preparing for “colossal” cuts in military operating costs to help the debt-ridden country emerge from its financial crisis and speed up plans to modernize the armed forces, but emphasized the reduction would not affect the strategic balance with neighboring Turkey. … In a […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2010

Bill Clinton: Rock Star

By Bono

There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors. But there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton. It’s an impossible equilibrium: wonky intellectual meets “Oh, hell” card player, oxygen and hydrogen. He defies the laws of physics as […]

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2010

U.S. Seeks to Revamp NATO Treaty in Europe

By Judy Dempsey, the New York Times

From Judy Dempsey, the New York Times: Spurred by a new treaty with Russia to reduce strategic nuclear missiles, the United States and NATO are seeking to revive a major treaty on conventional weapons in Europe, according to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary general. The effort will form one of three parts of a plan […]

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2010

Polish Foreign Minister: We’re not Actually Worried About Iranian Missile Threat

By Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy

From Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy: Poland doesn’t see is itself as a target of the missile threat from Iran, the country the nascent U.S. missile shield is supposedly designed to thwart. "If the mullahs have a target list we believe we are quite low on it," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2010

Why Bosnia Needs NATO (Again)

By  Louise Arbour and Gen. Wesley Clark, Foreign Policy

From Louise Arbour and Gen. Wesley Clark, Foreign Policy:  Paradoxically, this is precisely the time for NATO to forge a closer alliance with Bosnia, a process that began last Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia. A meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers agreed to give Bosnia and Herzegovina a Membership Action Plan (MAP) — a welcome step toward maintain […]

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2010

Republic of Korea Becoming the 46th Contributor to ISAF

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations: The Republic of Korea has offered to deploy a Provincial Reconstruction Team for Parwan Province to contribute to the governmental and infrastructure development of Regional Command East. With this official offer made on the 13 April, the Republic of Korea becomes the 46th contributor to the United Nations mandated International Security […]

NATOSource

Apr 30, 2010

National Armaments Directors Focus on Key Capability Requirements

By NATO

From NATO: The CNAD will explore the possibilities of current and future multinational projects in support of the Alliance’s operations, with particular consideration given to the budgetary effects of the economic crisis. Moreover, the conference will consider input from various speakers with regard to the CNAD’s support for NATO operations and missions on the following […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2010

Great Atlanticists on Atlanticism

By James Joyner

The purpose of the Council’s annual Leadership Awards is to honor Americans and Europeans who have made exceptional and distinctive contributions to the strengthening each of the four pillars of the transatlantic relationship: political, military, business, and humanitarian.  In their acceptance speeches, each of the 2010 honorees taught us a little something about being an […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 29, 2010

Bono on ‘Peaceniks in Fatigues’

By James Joyner

Paul David Hewson, KBE — known the world over  by his stage name Bono — articulated last night, probably as well as anyone I’ve heard on the subject, the crucial interdependence between human development and international security. Recognizing the extraordinary sacrifice of America’s soldiers trying to make the world better, he called on these “peaceniks […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 29, 2010

Ackermann: We Stand at a Crossroads

By James Joyner

As with the venerable E. F. Hutton before him, when Joe Ackermann talks, people listen.  Especially when he’s talking about fixing the problems that led to the financial crisis.

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