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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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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the US Military Academy West Point, NY

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2014

Secretary General Rasmussen: A Transatlantic Anchor in a Storm of Security Threats

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Our Alliance was founded 65 years ago, on the ruins of World War Two and in the shadow of the Cold War. It binds together North America and Europe to ensure our collective security.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Sep 24, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Calls on US to Send Over-Due Apaches

By EgyptSource

President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has said he supports the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham(ISIS), and called on the United States to send Egypt the military hardware it promised, during an interview on CBS with Charlie Rose.

Report: Russian soldiers at Perevalne military base, Crimea, March 9, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2014

NATO Sees Significant Pullback of Russian Troops from Ukraine

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO has observed a significant withdrawal of Russian forces from inside Ukraine, but many Russian troops remain stationed nearby, an alliance military spokesman said on Wednesday.

NATO Russia

MENASource

Sep 24, 2014

Air Strikes in Syria: One Hand Clapping

By Frederic C. Hof

The decision of the Obama administration to strike Islamic State targets (as well as some associated with another al-Qaeda derivative) in Syria is laudable. The participation of multiple Arab partners is commendable: the fight against this vacuum-filling band of murderers, torturers, and thieves is, in its essence, an Arab fight against pagan barbarism.

Iran Russia

MENASource

Sep 24, 2014

Top News: Obama Calls for the Cooperative Destruction of ISIS, Promises Sustained Action

By MENASource

Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham’s (ISIS) network that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the US back into military action in the region.

MENASource

Sep 24, 2014

Egypt is Open for Business…and They Have a Canal to Prove It

By Svetlana Milbert

When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today, he will likely discuss recent political achievements since taking office in June. In the shadow of the rising influence of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and US airstrikes in Syria, Sisi will […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 24, 2014

Libya: In Search of Neutrality

By Karim Mezran

As Libya continues to fragment, diplomats have mobilized to confront the current crisis. Spain has hosted an international conference focused on the North African country’s current situation; UN Special Representative Bernardino Leon testified before the Security Council about his recent visits to Libya; envoys from the West, particularly the United Kingdom, shuttle between the different […]

Libya

Trade in Action

Sep 23, 2014

Germany’s Unions and SPD Stand Behind TTIP

Who’s Who & Who’s New?Now that incoming European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has announced the proposed composition of the next Commission, TTIP Action will introduce several of the new commissioners, their portfolios, and their role in the European Union over the course of the next several weeks. Today’s edition introduces Jyrki Katainen, the designated Vice […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
An artist's rendering of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite

NATOSource

Sep 23, 2014

STRATCOM, DoD Sign Space Operations Agreement With Allies

By Cheryl Pellerin, DoD News

Officials from the Defense Department, U.S. Strategic Command and three allied nations signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday on combined space operations to strengthen deterrence, enhance resilience and optimize resources.

Space Technology & Innovation

New Atlanticist

Sep 23, 2014

Here’s How the US Attacks on ISIS Might Alter the Civil War in Syria

By New Atlanticist

As the United States conducts missile and air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in Syria, it could reap the additional strategic benefit of tilting the war there away from the Assad regime and jihadist forces, and in favor of the mainstream rebel groups to which it has given some support. […]

Syria
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