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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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MENASource

Feb 26, 2016

The Theories Behind Regeni’s Murder

By Karim Mezran

The ambiguous circumstances surrounding the tragic murder of Cambridge University’s doctoral candidate, Giulio Regeni, in Egypt have led to much speculation over who was behind the Italian student’s death. Many of these explanations appear to serve special interests, rather than trying to find the truth about the young researcher’s death and ensure the arrest of […]

Italy North Africa

Trade in Action

Feb 26, 2016

TTIP&TRADEinAction – February 26, 2016

By Global Business & Economics Program

Photo Credit: @EU_TTIP_team US and EU Chief Negotiators Dan Mullaney and Ignacio Garcia Bercero shake hands to kick off the 12th round of negotiations this week in Brussels.   The 12th round of TTIP negotiations is in full swing, with several stakeholder meetings taking place today. If you want to know more about the issues covered […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

UkraineAlert

Feb 26, 2016

Ukraine’s Booming Tech Sector Gets International Attention Despite War

By Diane Francis

A plain Soviet-era office block squats on a residential street in the beautiful historic city of Lviv, Ukraine. The lobby is dimly lit and there is no seating, only a stern guard who points to the elevator to access local software engineering firm N-iX. The doors part and the offices are an orange and white […]

Russia Ukraine

SyriaSource

Feb 26, 2016

Top News: February 26, 2016

By SyriaSource

– UN Security Council aims to endorse halt in Syria fighting– Putin says groups in Syria ready to comply with ceasefire; Russian air strikes intensify– Bombs hit Syrian hospitals, medical workers fear they are target – Rights groups slam ‘shameful’ Russia deportation of Syrian refugees– United States sensitive to Turkey’s YPG concerns, but wants more information– […]

Syria

MENASource

Feb 26, 2016

Top News: Putin says groups in Syria ready to comply with ceasefire; Russian air strikes intensify

By MENASource

All parties expected to take part in a cessation of hostilities in Syria have said they are ready to do so, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, warning the peace process would be difficult nonetheless at a meeting with the FSB security service in Moscow.

MENASource

Feb 26, 2016

Top News: Kerry Defends US Stance on Egypt

By EgyptSource

Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged a “deterioration” in Egyptian freedoms in testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday, but defended the administration’s decision to waive human rights conditions on aid to the country. “There are disturbing arrests, there are disturbing sentences,” he said, but also pointed to Egypt’s strategic importance to the United […]

MENASource

Feb 26, 2016

EconSource: Morocco Suspends Contacts With EU Over Court Ruling on Farm Trade

By EconSource

Morocco said Thursday it had suspended contact with European Union (EU) institutions over a court ruling invalidating a farm trade accord.

Bremain vs Brexit

Feb 25, 2016

Migrant Crisis, Brexit Distracting EU from Enlargement, Says Albania’s Foreign Minister

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The migrant crisis and the debate over the United Kingdom’s future in the European Union have shifted focus away from the enlargement of the bloc and this could disrupt the process of building democratic future member states, Albania’s Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said on February 25. “Unfortunately, the migrant crisis, coupled with other crises that […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

New Atlanticist

Feb 25, 2016

‘Sustainable Global Energy Systems’ Needed, says Norwegian Official

By Mitch Hulse

Universal access to affordable green energy is critical for meeting both global sustainable development and carbon-emission-reduction goals, Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tord Lien, said in Washington on February 25. In order “to eliminate extreme poverty and reduce global social inequality, we have to build sustainable global energy systems,” said Lien. He spoke at […]

Energy & Environment Northern Europe

MENASource

Feb 25, 2016

Libya: Thinking the Unthinkable

By Karim Mezran

Observers and commentators have floated many ideas on how best to support the Government of National Accord (GNA) born out of 18 months of UN-led negotiations. They range from advice to Western nations on how to implement an international stabilization force to provide security for the new government in Tripoli to strongly discouraging any foreign […]

Libya
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