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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 16, 2010

Unilateralism Thrust Upon Us?

Anne Applebaum presents a provocative question in the Washington Post: Europe might have a new phone number, but when Obama calls, the person on the other end of the line will still be unable to act. “Europe” will not be a unified entity capable of coordinating a unified policy in Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Vaclac Havel, former President of the Czech Republic

By Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy: “they respect it when someone is standing his ground, when someone is not afraid of them. When someone soils his pants prematurely, then they do not respect you more for it.” Vaclav Havel,

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Robert E. Hunter , former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

Will the United States recommit in practical ways to being a European power?  (photo: Council on Foreign Relations)

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

U.S. – Pakistan Capture Taliban Commander

By James Joyner

The apparent capture of Afghan Taliban military commander Abdul Ghani Baradar is not only great news in NATO’s war against the militants but potentially a very strong signal of improved cooperation between Pakistan and the United States. Mark Mazzeti and Dexter Filkins broke the news this morning in the NYT. The Taliban’s top military commander […]

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Hello world!

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

NATO and the Nuclear Umbrella

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: As early as 1987, NATO foreign ministers proposed significant reductions of short-range nuclear weapons in their Reykjavik declaration. And 15 years ago, when U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry developed the formula that there is no need and no plan to deploy nuclear weapons to new NATO member states, he correctly […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

An Alarming Franco-Russian Arms Deal

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: France’s decision to go ahead with the deal without prompting any NATO objections is particularly disturbing in light of Moscow’s recent aggressions. It’s just some 18 months ago that the Russians snubbed Mr. Sarkozy when they refused to comply with the French-brokered Georgia War cease-fire agreement President Dmitry Medvedev had […]

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Russian NATO Envoy Pours Cold Water on Transdnestr’s Missile Proposal

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia’s envoy to NATO has poured cold water on an offer by Moldova’s unrecognized republic of Transdnestr to deploy Russian missile defense elements… Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said Transdnestr’s move to deploy Russian Iskander missiles could lead to a serious regional conflict, and added that there could be no talk […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

Taliban and Al Qaeda: A Shotgun Wedding

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

When U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed the Afghan war as his own the reason he gave was "because that’s where al Qaeda is."  In point of fact, al Qaeda skedaddled out of Afghanistan shortly after Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. troops invaded.

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

The Russo-Turkish Dance

By Nicholas Siegel

The great Romanov-Osman ball took place at the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. In the hall of mirrors, bewigged, liveried servants bowed as Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, a pretender to the Imperial Russian throne, and Prince Osman Selahaddin Osmanoglu, her Ottoman counterpart, emerged before the assembled guests. 

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