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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

Oct 7, 2009

NATO Chief on EU-Backed Report on War

By Civil Georgia

From Civil Georgia: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said when asked if the findings of the EU-commissioned report on the August war would influence on Georgia’s aspiration to join the alliance, that the report “will not have any impact on the decisions already made in NATO…” On the report itself NATO Secretary General said: […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 7, 2009

Stakes are Higher in Pakistan than Afghanistan

By Harlan Ullman

In Afghanistan, the Obama administration faces an array of agonizing choices, none of which is good. Making matters worse, the most important strategic issue is not Afghanistan. The strategic fulcrum in containing and defeating the insurgency that is spilling over and across the Hindu Kush is Pakistan.

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Oct 7, 2009

Nabucco Edging Ahead of South Stream?

By Alexandros Petersen

At the opening of the Atlantic Council’s Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum in Bucharest on September 30, you couldn’t ask for a better mix of commercial and geopolitical interests when it comes to energy development in Eurasia.  But not because the speakers represented a government and the private sector.

Energy & Environment
Steven Everts, Personal Representative, Secretary-General, High Representative for Energy and Foreign Policy, Council of the EU

New Atlanticist

Oct 7, 2009

The Caspian Comes to Europe

By Alexandros Petersen

If EU policymakers and companies won’t go to Caspian energy producers with serious offers for their hydrocarbons, Caspian producers will just have to go to the EU.  This seems to be the message sent by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as their state energy companies partner to build an oil pipeline heading to the West.

Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Oct 7, 2009

The Russia-Georgia Conflict: An Invasion by Any Other Name

By David Smith

The long awaited European Union-commissioned report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia was published last week.  Unsurprisingly, it largely corroborates Georgian accounts of Russia’s August 2008 invasion while blaming Georgia for sparking the conflict.

Russia The Caucasus

NATOSource

Oct 6, 2009

Rethinking Security in “Greater Europe”

By the European Council on Foreign Relations

From the European Council on Foreign Relations: Both the EU and NATO have exhausted their potential for “light” expansion. Both organizations have entered an area of open rivalry, where they will inevitably meet with opposition from Russia. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that not a single country in the former Soviet Union, including […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Oct 6, 2009

Jim Jones and Bob Gates: Service in a Polarized Age

By James Joyner

Michael Goldfarb, formerly chief blogger for the McCain campaign, wrote a piece for the Weekly Standard blog with the provocative title “Rent-a-General Jim Jones,” arguing that the man who spent four decades serving his country as an officer in the Marine Corps, rising to Commandant and then Supreme Allied Commander, is a partisan stooge for […]

NATOSource

Oct 6, 2009

Russia Ready For Restoration Of Ties With NATO

By AP

From AP: Russia is ready to fully restore cooperation with NATO which was suspended in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A planned trip to Moscow by NATO’s secretary-general should demonstrate that the alliance is also ready for developing ties, said Nataliya Timakova, a spokeswoman for President Dmitry Medvedev. “Of course, […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 6, 2009

Capitalizing on the Recession

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“The American dream fell apart at the seams,” Willie Nelson sang on CNN as he described the plight of small farmers going bust. Almost everything and everyone is fighting for survival in an economy that continues to defy wallops of government stimulus.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Oct 5, 2009

Danish defence chief quits over Arabic book uproar

By Reuters

From Reuters: The head of Denmark’s defence forces quit on Sunday after the military was forced to admit its own officers had translated into Arabic a book describing Danish special forces’ operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Admiral Tim Jorgensen resigned after it emerged that a military computer specialist produced an Arabic version of a book […]

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