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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, 2010

Georgia Confirms Highly Enriched Uranium Seizure

By the AP

From the AP: Georgia’s president said his country had seized a shipment of highly enriched uranium, blaming Russia for creating the instability that allows nuclear smugglers to operate in the region. … Saakashvili gave few details of the seizure during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, saying only that the uranium was intercepted last […]

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2010

U.S. Patriot Battery to be Deployed in Poland “Around May 24”

By Reuters

From Reuters: A planned battery of U.S. Patriot missiles that has irritated Russia will now arrive in Poland in late May, the state news agency PAP said on Wednesday, nearly two months behind schedule. The temporary deployment of the battery, along with a 100-man team to operate it, is part of a Polish-U.S. agreement signed […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2010

Russia to Pay Ukraine Annually $98 Million in Cash for Naval Base Rent

By Interfax

From Interfax: Russia, which has granted a discount on gas payments to Ukraine, will start paying about $98 million in cash annually to rent the Black Sea Fleet’s base in Sevastopol starting in 2019, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said at a press conference on Thursday. A 1997 Russian-Ukrainian treaty on the Black Sea Fleet’s stationing […]

Energy & Environment Ukraine

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2010

Tanker Contract is Back in Play

By Jen DiMascio, POLITICO

From Jen DiMascio, POLITICO:  The stage is now set for a two-company battle for a $35 billion contract to make aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force in the wake of the announcement by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. that it would in fact submit a military version of its A330 aircraft for […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2010

Rasmussen: NATO Needs Missile Defense System to Protect “All Our Populations”

By NATO

From NATO: [W]e also need a credible missile defence system, providing coverage for all the Allies. The United States already has a missile defence system. Some European Allies have a capacity to protect deployed forces against missile attacks. But of course we must be able to also protect our populations – all our populations. If […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 22, 2010

”On Alliance Solidarity in the 21st Century”

By NATO

From NATO:  More than six decades after NATO’s creation, solidarity remains the Alliance’s most precious asset. But like all precious assets, it cannot be taken for granted. That is why I am determined to ensure that NATO remains the bastion of solidarity that it needs to be. And it is why I have chosen to […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2010

Russia-Poland “Reset”?

By Angela Stent

Will the tragic plane crash over Smolensk that killed 96 of Poland’s top political elite provide the opening for a less fraught and more productive Russian-Polish relationship? That would require both countries coming to terms with a contested history, and with policy differences over the joint EU- Russia neighborhood, pipeline politics and broader questions of […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2010

Restoring Legitimacy in Kyrgyzstan

By Borut Grgic

With ousted President  Kurmanbek Bakiyev now out of the country, and fears of a civil war weaning, the international community should carefully consider its agenda if it wishes to bringing about stability and true change to Kyrgyzstan. It would be a mistake to blindly accept the transition government as the trigger of the country’s democratic […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2010

Nuclear Iran: Accepting the ‘Unacceptable’

By Harlan Ullman

Iran possessing nuclear weapons is “unacceptable,” a warning repeated by many heads of state and senior government officials. The same was said of North Korea,although it may have little more than a nuclear device and thus far lacks a means of delivery.

NATOSource

Apr 21, 2010

Russia Black Sea Fleet Presence in Ukraine Extended for 25 More Years

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Ukraine has agreed to extend the term of Russian Black Sea Fleet presence in the country’s Crimea for 25 more years, the Russian president said on Wednesday. The new agreement, signed after talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, also stipulates the extension for an additional five […]

Ukraine
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