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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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New Atlanticist

May 19, 2009

Energy and Russia’s National Security Strategy

By Roman Kupchinsky

On May 12 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the latest version of the “National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation up to 2020” (Security Council of the Russian Federation, May 12).

Energy & Environment Russia

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

NATO Should Help in Pakistan

By Atlantic Council

Can humanitarian relief provide political support for security objectives? Michel and Nawaz identify costs that may outweigh the benefits of their policy recommendation. From Atlantic Council: “But what can NATO do? History suggests that it can do a lot and rapidly. Moreover, a broad-based NATO support may be politically more palatable than any single-country relief […]

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan

By Reuters

From Reuters: “Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:Britain 159Canada 118Denmark 22**France 27*Germany 31Spain 25Netherlands 19United States 683Other nations 68TOTAL: 1,152

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

Russia’s Plan to Sideline NATO

By Heritage Foundation

From Heritage Foundation: “When Russians talk about changing Europe’s security architecture, what they really mean is sidelining NATO. However, in the Obama Administration’s haste to reset relations with Russia, and its nonsensical enthusiasm for EU-integration, it has sent neither Moscow nor Brussels the message that NATO’s primacy is non-negotiable. In fact, it has seemingly gone […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

Recommendations for the New U.S. Ambassador to NATO

By Heritage Foundation

From Heritage Foundation: “Ambassador Daalder should establish a NATO-first agenda. Previously, Daalder has advocated an extreme pro-EU integration position and even called for anti-terrorism cooperation to be moved from the bilateral to the supranational EU level.[3] In a major policy paper in 2001, he called for the U.S. Administration to adopt a ‘Europe-First Policy,’ supporting […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

Release of NATO Statistics

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: “During a routine briefing this week in Brussels, a NATO spokesman regaled convened journalists with a 10-minute barrage of statistics. A distillation of a report given to NATO ambassadors earlier that day, the figures showed there had been a 64 percent hike in insurgent attacks in the period January-April 2009 […]

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

Sweden and NATO

By Defense News

Sweden’s Defense Minister, Sten Tolgfors, reveals in an interview that NATO membership is not on Stockholm’s agenda. From Defense News: “Q. What is the government’s position on joining NATO?A. Membership is not on the political agenda during this government’s four years in office because of an agreement between the four parties in government. I think […]

NATOSource

May 18, 2009

Fighting piracy requires better international cooperation

By Deutsche Welle

From Deutsche Welle: “Bjorn Seibert, a Research Affiliate for Security Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lists the various international missions deployed: ‘You have the EU’s mission, you have NATO’s mission and then you have two Combined Task Forces led by the United States, Combined Task Force 151 and 150, which operate in the […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 18, 2009

Barack and Bibi: Treading Water?

By Don Snow

Israeli Prime Minister Benyimin (Bibi) Netanyahou is coming calling to the White House today. After the self-flagellation of delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame, it may seem a relief for Obama. Alternately, of course, it could produce a second Excedrin headache.

New Atlanticist

May 18, 2009

U.S. Military: Future Scenarios

By Derek Reveron

The U.S. Department of Defense has begun its quadrennial defense review (QDR) with the goal of assessing the threats and challenges facing the United States in order to balance strategies, capabilities and forces.  This is the fourth QDR and the results will not be known or released until early 2010.

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