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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

Dec 5, 2014

EconSource:Yemen Central Bank Sees No Early Repayment of Saudi Loan

By EconSource

According to Yemeni central bank governor, Saudi Arabia has not asked Yemen for an early repayment of a $1 billion loan and the Houthi fighters occupying the central bank are reportedly not interfering with its operations. Saudi Arabia had suspended most of its financial aid to Yemen due to the growing power of the Shiite […]

MENASource

Dec 5, 2014

Inflating the Salafi Threat in Jordan

By Sean Yom and Wael Al-Khatib

Jordan’s government-influenced media has declared the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) as an affront to Islam and human dignity and availed itself to the coalition fighting the militant group. Jordan hosts an undisclosed number of US troops and advisers, alongside drones and combat aircraft.

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2014

The Demise of South Stream

By Richard Morningstar

Russia’s Planned Pipeline to Southeast Europe Was Doomed from the Start While the timing of President Vladimir Putin’s abandonment of the South Stream gas pipeline this week was surprising, its demise was inevitable from the start.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Congressman Mike Turner

NATOSource

Dec 4, 2014

Congressman Mike Turner Elected to Lead NATO Parliamentary Assembly

By Anthony Shoemaker and Jessica Wehrman, Dayton Daily News

Rep. Mike Turner is the newest president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | December 4

By Irena Chalupa

It’s Not Just Ukraine: Putin Has the Whole Region Cornered via Politico Pifer: Congress Should OK Arms for Ukraine, but Not Sanctions on Russia via The Hill Ukrainian Journalists Oppose Kyiv’s New Information Ministry  via RFE-RL Video: Yale Historian Tim Snyder on Ukraine and Us via Chicago Humanities Festival EuroMaidan One Year Later via Ukrainian Media Crisis Center Anne Applebaum: How Putin and His […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Dec 4, 2014

Ukraine’s New Foreign-Born Ministers Vow to Accelerate Economic Reforms

By James Rupert

US- and Lithuanian-Born Officials Will Be Independent, Competent—and New to Governing in Kyiv The race is on. With Ukraine’s finances running thin and the country needing a bigger bailout from its western allies, the country’s new cabinet took office this week pledging to floor the accelerator on the spending cuts and reforms needed to begin […]

Ukraine

MENASource

Dec 4, 2014

EconSource: Tunisia Asks Libya for Cheaper Oil

By EconSource

Tunisia has asked Libyan authorities to supply oil at cheaper prices to help it cope with the influx of Libyans into the country. Tunisian Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi said that Libyans are “guests” in Tunisia, not “refugees,” and expressed optimism about Libyans reaching a political settlement to their crisis. Until then, however, given the negative […]

REUTERS/Stringer

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2014

Boko Haram Steps Up Offensive as Nigeria Halts US Military Training Program

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Boko Haram, the African militant group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over the summer, appears to have borrowed a page from the jihadists’ playbook as it unleashes a deadly wave of attacks across northern Nigeria in its quest to carve out an Islamic state rooted in Shariah law.

Nigeria
REUTERS/Stringer

AfricaSource

Dec 4, 2014

Boko Haram Q & A

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group that has a foothold in northern Nigeria, has begun to consolidate control over large swathes of territory threatening the stability of Nigeria and its neighbors. The militants have resorted to using female suicide bombers as they ramp up their fight against the Nigerian government ahead of elections in February. […]

Conflict Nigeria
AWACS: NATO's 'Eye In The Sky,' March 18, 2011

NATOSource

Dec 4, 2014

NATO Faces AWACS Fleet Shrinkage

By Tony Osborne, Aviation Week

NATO might be calling on its members to raise their defense spending, but if the alliance’s airborne early warning program is anything to go by, that message may be falling on deaf ears.

NATO Security & Defense
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