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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

Feb 17, 2010

Stage Set for New Fight Over Missile Defense

By the Cable

From the Cable: A new gambit by Russia to link missile defense to a still-pending nuclear arms agreement is threatening to throw another wrench into plans to quickly sign and pass the deal in Congress. Russian officials including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have explicitly linked U.S. missile defense plans to the treaty. Now, two sources […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2010

Russia says U.S. Anti-Missile Shield Plans Could Affect Talks on Arms Cuts Pact

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: "Taking into account the present circumstances, this [the expansion of the U.S. anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe] has caused concern in the Russian government and Russian armed forces," General Nikolai Makarov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said. "We look at this negatively…" Makarov said the new arms deal was 97% complete, with […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2010

Russia to Put Military Base in Georgia’s Abkhazia

By the AP

From the AP: President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is to station a permanent military base in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, another separatist-held part of Georgia, declared independence after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Thousands of Russian troops are thought to have remained in the Moscow-sponsored republics, which Georgia and the West […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Alexander Dugin: Not even the USA will return South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgia

By the Georgian Times

From the Georgian Times: [excerpts of interview with Alexander Dugin, head of the Geopolitical Research Centre of Russia] The present Russian Government is absolutely pragmatic in geopolitical matters. It understands that there is a war going on between Russia and the USA over the post-Soviet countries. Rusia will support countries which reject closer ties with […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

NATO secretary general not sure of success in Afghanistan

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: “Victory in Afghanistan is not guaranteed, and NATO needs to change its strategy in the country, the alliance’s secretary general said Monday at a Washington-based think tank. “Despite everything that we have already done, reaching our goal in Afghanistan is not guaranteed,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen told an audience at the Atlantic Council. […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Lugar Q and A excerpt ACUS

“Let me be clear: I am not opposed to the new missile defense architecture proposed by the President. It may well turn out to be a technical improvement in meeting the projected threat over the original design proposed by the previous Administration. But Iranian missiles never constituted the primary rationale for Polish and Czech decisions […]

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

ISAF regains initiative, claims Dutch General

By Radio Netherlands Worldwide

From Radio Netherlands Worldwide: NATO has significantly changed its military strategy in Southern Afghanistan since the alliance-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) deployed into the region in 2006. Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif told Radio Netherlands that rather than massive offensives against the Taliban, as was the case in the early days, ISAF now […]

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland

If you can still afford it, we need some strategic reassurance. Reuters

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Putin quote

By the Georgian Daily

From the Georgian Daily: “I can assure you,” Putin told a press conference during his recent visit to Paris, “that if we purchase the armament, we will use it wherever deemed necessary.” Asked in which sea would Russia deploy the Mistral ship or ships if the deal is finalized, Putin told the media in Paris […]

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Merkel calls minister meeting on Afghanistan ahead of summit

By the Local

From the Local: According to Friday’s edition of daily Berliner Zeitung, Merkel has ordered Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, and Development Minister Dirk Niebel to appear at the Chancellery on Monday evening. There Merkel and the ministers plan to finalise their list of priorities for Germany’s […]

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