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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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Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber near Scotland, April 23, 2014

NATOSource

Nov 12, 2014

Russia Announces Bomber Flights to the Caribbean

By Vladimir Isachenkov, AP

Russia’s long-range bombers will conduct regular patrol missions from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, the military said Wednesday, a show of muscle reflecting tensions with the West over Ukraine.

NATO Russia

UkraineAlert

Nov 12, 2014

Putin’s Project Sparta

By Adrian Karatnycky

As the US Congress Reconvenes, It and Europe Must Respond to the Kremlin’s Coming Offensive in Ukraine Russia has moved a massive wave of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery into Ukraine’s Donbas region in recent days, accompanied by new uniformed troops without insignia, to bolster the armed forces of the Russian-sponsored Donetsk and Lugansk […]

Eastern Europe Russia
Cruiser Varyag, flagship of Russia's Pacific Fleet, October 12, 2005

NATOSource

Nov 12, 2014

Russia Sends Warships To Australia

By David Wroe, Sydney Morning Herald

Russia has sent a fleet of warships towards Australia in an apparent display of muscle-flexing ahead of the G20 meeting amid tensions between the two countries over the MH17 crash.

Australia NATO

MENASource

Nov 12, 2014

Countering ISIS: Obama Administration Strategy

By Frederic C. Hof

At Andrews Joint Base on March 14, 2014 President Barack Obama told visiting uniformed defense chiefs that a key aspect of destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, also known as ISIL and the Islamic State) would be the promotion of moderate, legitimate governance inside Syria; governance that would ultimately be extended to […]

Syria

MENASource

Nov 12, 2014

Top News: Parliamentary Elections to be Held Before End of March

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that Egyptian parliamentary elections will take place before the end of March 2015.

MENASource

Nov 12, 2014

Top News: Assad Says UN “Freeze Zone” Proposal is Worth Considering

By MENASource

President Bashar al-Assad said Monday that a UN proposal for a local cease-fire in Aleppo was worth considering. It was Assad’s first response to the idea floated recently by the UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura.

MENASource

Nov 12, 2014

EconSource: Yemen and the World Bank discuss cooperation aspects

By EconSource

Yemeni Prime Minister discussed means by which to cooperate with the World Bank. Reportedly the meeting touched on the implementation of development projects and their role in supporting government efforts to jumpstart the economy. The World Bank is interested continuing its support to Yemen in order to enhance the country’s absorptive capacity for donor pledges.

T-64 tank with no marking in Snizhne, Ukraine, June 2014

NATOSource

Nov 12, 2014

NATO General Confirms More Russian Tanks Have Moved Into Ukraine

By BBC

Nato has seen columns of Russian military equipment and Russian combat troops entering Ukraine this week, its top commander said.

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Russian An-72 transport aircraft in Finnish airspace, Aug. 28, 2014

NATOSource

Nov 10, 2014

Finland Warns of New Cold War Over Failure to Grasp Situation in Russia

By Simon Tisdall, Guardian

Western countries are at the gates of a new cold war with Russia, sparked by the Ukraine crisis and a continuing failure to grasp the depth and seriousness of Vladimir Putin’s grievances with the US and EU,

NATO NATO Partnerships

New Atlanticist

Nov 10, 2014

China’s Evolving Ebola Response: Recognizing the Cost of Inaction

By Chris Leins

World leaders arrived in Beijing on November 10 for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting, as China seeks to emphasize its global economic influence and power. Yet, even while China demonstrates its economic might, the country’s slow response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa – where it has a substantial commercial footprint — raised […]

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