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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 5, 2010

Danish Forces Free Ship Captured by Pirates

By the AP

From the AP: Danish special forces disrupted the takeover by pirates of a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, in a maneuver rarely undertaken by NATO warships, a naval spokesman said. The crew of the Ariella had seen a skiff approaching their position in the Gulf of Aden early Friday morning with […]

NATOSource

Feb 5, 2010

Moscow Wants Answers from U.S. on Romania Missile Shield Plan

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Moscow is waiting for clarification from the United States over its plans to deploy missile defense elements in Romania, the Russian foreign minister said Friday… “We expect the United States to provide an exhaustive explanation, taking into account the fact that the Black Sea regime is regulated by the Montreux Convention,” Sergei […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 5, 2010

Romania Accepts U.S. Plan for Missile Defense

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Romania’s top defense body approved an American proposal to base missile interceptors there, the country’s president said Thursday in a hastily arranged announcement. The president, Traian Basescu, said in a statement that Romania, a former Warsaw Pact member and now part of NATO, was prepared to negotiate with the United […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 5, 2010

NATO Defence Ministers Decide to Focus on Three Priorities

By NATO

From NATO: It has been a very positive meeting. Ministers have agreed measures to ensure that our books are balanced. That we have balance between resources and requirements, balance between revenue and expenditures. We will now focus on implementing the package. And that includes doing more together – an issue which we discussed in depth. […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

US and Europe: Matching Words with Deeds

By Stephanie Hofmann and Kenneth Weisbrode

So much attention has gone to Barack Obama’s decision to skip this year’s US-EU Summit — the latest in a now long series of perceived snubs — that almost nobody seems to have noticed what is, at least according to the State Department, a milestone in transatlantic relations.

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

Obama Snubs Europe. Again.

By James Joyner

President Obama has once again set off a round of charges that he’s snubbing European leaders, this time with the announcement he’ll skip May’s EU-US summit. Deborah Seward for AP:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

Zapatero the Optimist

By Nicholas Siegel

Despite coming off what the Spanish press has dubbed “Zapatero’s Horrible Week,” the President of Spain gave an inspired and constructive speech before the Atlantic Council in Washington last night.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2010

NATO Chief: No Plan to ‘Bribe’ Taliban

By the AP

From the AP: NATO does not intend to bribe Taliban guerrillas to defect to the Afghan government side as a way to end the war, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday, dismissing concerns over the latest plan to end the country’s growing insurgency… In a post on the alliance’s Web site ahead of a […]

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2010

EU Summit Scrapped After Obama ‘Snub’

By the BBC

From the BBC: The European Union has scrapped a summit with the US, after President Barack Obama decided not to attend. The event in Madrid in May was to have been the highlight of Spain’s six-month EU presidency, and the cancellation is seen as a humiliating blow. Officials say the summit may take place later […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 4, 2010

Obama’s Challenge is a Broken Political System

By Harlan Ullman

After a year and two weeks in office, President Barack Obama and his approval ratings have suffered more than just the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. As virtually all recent presidents before him, the first year has been unkind and even hostile.

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