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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

Jan 22, 2015

EconSource: Oil Export Losses to Reach $300 Billion in Middle East

By EconSource

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), losses from lower oil exports should sap up to $300 billion from economies in the Middle East and Central Asia this year, as countries in the region adjust to falling crude prices. An updated outlook on the region predicted that economies particularly dependent on oil exports, including Qatar, […]

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

The Libya Conundrum

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

What is happening in Libya? And how will Egypt react? Libya today has devolved into a violent political struggle between two major blocs: the internationally recognized, Tobruk-based parliament versus Tripoli’s parliament and administration.

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Syria: The Policy Cul-De-Sac

By Frederic C. Hof

US policy toward Syria is stalled in a cul-de-sac. It occupies the strategic low ground between an August 2011 presidential call for Bashar al-Assad to step aside, the June 2014 eruption of the Assad-conjured Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) into Iraq from Syria, and the administration’s resolute reluctance to act in accordance with a fundamental […]

Syria

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Top News: Houthi leader gives list of demands in televised speech

By MENASource

Sheikh Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi spoke hours after fighters from the Houthi group battled guards at President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi’s private home. Calling his measures “open-ended,” he laid out four demands.

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Top News: HRW Says Conditions in Egyptian Prisons ‘Life-Threatening’

By EgyptSource

Human Rights Watch accused Egyptian authorities in a statement released on Wednesday of failing to take serious steps to improve conditions in overcrowded prisons which are causing deaths. The government denied the accusations.

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Missing the Roots of the Crisis in Yemen

By MENASource

Hope for Yemen’s political transition suffered a major blow over the past two days as Houthi rebels shelled the presidential palace and put President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi, a key US ally, under house arrest. Yemen’s Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf reported that Hadi had lost all control over the country, including in the capital, Sana’a.

Yemen
President Barack Obama, Jan. 25, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2015

Transatlantic Priorities in Obama’s State of the Union Address

By White House

My first duty as commander in chief is to defend the United States of America.

Afghanistan Cybersecurity

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

EconSource: Algeria’s Trade Surplus Down to $4.6 Billion in 2014

By EconSource

According to the Algerian Customs’ National Centre of Data Processing and Statistics, the country’s surplus trade stood at $4.63 billion in 2014, against $9.94 billion in 2013, declining by nearly 53.5 percent. This decline in the trade surplus was reportedly driven by increased exports by 3 percent during last year, with the percentage of imports […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 21, 2015

Rousseff Version 2.0: A New Chapter in US-Brazil Ties?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Panel Sees Hope as Brazilian President Pledges to Visit US in September Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s second term in office may present an opportunity for Washington and Brasilia to improve relations. Despite recent bumps in the road in the US-Brazil relationship, Anthony S. Harrington, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1999 to 2001, […]

Brazil

New Atlanticist

Jan 21, 2015

In Yemen, a US Policy Focused on Drones Missed the Roots of Instability and Terror

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US and Allies Need to Help Build Economy, Governance, and Justice, Analyst Says The chaos in Yemen underscores that the United States and its allies need a comprehensive security and economic strategy for that country, says Atlantic Council analyst Danya Greenfield. Yemen’s decline, marked yesterday as Shiite tribesmen besieged the presidential offices, has given new […]

Yemen
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