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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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Trade in Action

Oct 28, 2014

TTIP Action October 28

By Global Business & Economics Program

How NSA Spying, Google and Chlorinated Chickens Are Pitting Germans Against Americans – And What to Do About ItIn his excellent, in-depth opinion piece, Sigmar Gabriel, vice-chancellor of Germany, explains how the “chlorine chicken”  has come to symbolize German fears about TTIP. Instead of treating TTIP like a zero-sum game, the German public should be […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

Hariri Center Experts React to Tunisia’s Elections

By MENASource

Tunisia marked the begining of its final chapter by holding its first legislative elections under its new constitution on October 26. Despite concerns over insecurity and political apathy after a tumultuous three and a half year transition, initial figures regarding voter turnout suggest a high degree of Tunisian engagement with the process, surprising most analysts.

North Africa
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, October 28, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 28, 2014

Secretary General: NATO is a Unique Alliance With a Clear Course

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

I grew up in a world that felt at the time as dangerous as the world we live in today. As a child in Norway during the Cold War, I didn’t know much about Article 5 or the Washington Treaty. But I did know that NATO was there to protect us.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

Where Is Egypt’s Maspero Youth Union Now?

By Jayson Casper

Twenty-three Egyptian liberal activists were sentenced to three years in prison for demonstrating against the protest law on Sunday. Amid the ongoing clampdown on dissent, the common observer can sigh, but be forgiven for asking: Whatever happened to those Coptic youth activists?

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

Top News: EU Observers Call Tunisia Vote “Transparent and Credible”

By MENASource

Annemie Neyts-Uytterbroeck, head of the European Union observer mission in Tunisia, called the country’s elections “transparent and credible.”

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

Top News: Expelled Students Cannot Enroll in Private Schools, Subjected to Military Trials

By EgyptSource

Students suspended from government universities will not be permitted to enroll in private universities, Cairo University President Gaber Nassar told the privately owned news outlet Youm7 following a meeting with the High Council of Universities on Monday.

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

General Allen on Building a Syrian Force

By Frederic C. Hof

Special Presidential Envoy General John Allen did his best in an Asharq Al-Awsat interview to square the circle of an unsustainable Syria policy in the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, ISIL, or the Islamic State).

Syria

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

EconSource: US Signals it Might Back Egypt Bailout

By EconSource

US Treasury Secretary Lew indicated that Washington will go ahead with international emergency loans for Egypt if Cairo pushes further to repair the country’s economy. The United States has long viewed Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, as a linchpin for regional stability. Bailout talks between Egypt and the International Monetary Fund have been […]

MENASource

Oct 28, 2014

The Struggle for Female Political Participation in Tunisia

By Afràa Fdhil

Considering that Tunisia has long been on the frontlines in gender politics, electoral lists for the parliamentary elections that took place on October 26 have proved a disappointment; female candidates led 11 percent of electoral lists.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2014

Can Dilma Rousseff Rebuild Broader Political Alliances for Her Second Term?

By New Atlanticist

That Is the Path She Should Take, for Herself and for Brazil, Atlantic Council’s Sennes Says Having barely won re-election in Brazil’s tightest presidential election in a quarter-century, Dilma Rousseff faces several key tasks if she is to govern effectively in her new four-year term, writes the Atlantic Council’s nonresident senior fellow in Brazil, Ricardo […]

Brazil Latin America
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