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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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New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 9

By Irena Chalupa

Don’t Forget Crimea from The New York Times Ukraine’s Search For An Honest Thief from Politico Magazine Vladimir Putin’s European Adventures from The Economist Ukrainian Energy Firm Hires Biden Son As Lawyer from San Jose Mercury News Mr. Perfect from Warsaw: The Rise of Poland’s Foreign Minister from Spiegel Russia’s Eurasian Union: Part of a Master Plan from The National Interest […]

Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will need to buid a partnership with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to advance the reforms he has promised to implement. (Photo: Kathrin Mobius/CC License)

New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2014

Ukraine’s New President Must Begin Reforms Immediately

By Sabine Freizer

Poroshenko Must Partner With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to Make Progress As Petro Poroshenko begins his first week as Ukraine’s president, his country needs him to begin difficult reforms immediately, even as his government struggles with the Russian-backed uprising in eastern Ukraine. The immediacy is enforced by a shriveling economy that is likely to lose between […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

The Field Marshall Plan

By Matthew Hall

What can the Development Corridor mega-project tell us about how Sisi will govern? In a spate of television interviews during the final stretch of the campaign, presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke of the entrenched structural problems facing the nation—an economic rut so deep that Egyptians could not hope to “run” from it, but instead […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

Freedom of Expression is not the only Victim

By Sarah El Sirgany

A day before the presidential elections results were officially announced, popular TV satirist Bassem Youssef announced the end of his comedy show, El Bernameg, telling reporters he was fed up with worrying about his and his family’s safety. MBC, the Saudi channel that gave him a platform, he added, had come under pressure to cancel […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Sworn in as President

By MENASource

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been sworn in as the eighth president of Egypt at a ceremony in Cairo. Sisi took the oath-of-office before the Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday, beginning his four-year presidency.

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

Top News: Sisi Sworn in as Egypt’s Eighth President, Reappoints Mahlab as PM

By EgyptSource

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been sworn in as the eighth president of Egypt at a ceremony in Cairo. Sisi took the oath-of-office before the Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday, beginning his four year presidency. He reappointed on Monday the country’s prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab to head a caretaker government shortly after the cabinet tendered its resignation.

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

EconSource: Egypt turns to Western advisers, signaling possible reforms

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

Secretary General and NATO Defense Ministers, June 4, 2014

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2014

NATO Defense Ministers Approve Initiative on Multinational Forces and a New Cyber Policy

By NATO

Ministers approved Germany’s initiative on “Framework Nations”, which will help boost multinational cooperation to develop the forces and capabilities needed to meet NATO’s requirements and cope with new security challenges.

Cybersecurity Germany
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomija, Jan. 23, 2012

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2014

Finland Will Require Referendum to Decide NATO Membership

By Defense News and Yle

From Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News:  Finland’s electorate will ultimately decide whether Finland will join NATO.

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SouthAsiaSource

Jun 6, 2014

This Week in South Asia: May 31 – June 6

By Aman Ghose and Fayyaz Yaseen

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. India The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh officially split in two this week thereby officially creating India’s 29th state, Telangana. President’s rule was lifted as the first popular government came into power as […]

Afghanistan India
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