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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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Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Gen. Knud Bartels, May 22, 2014

NATOSource

May 22, 2014

NATO’s Credibility and Deterrence Dependent on Deployable Forces

By Knud Bartels, NATO

Our view is that the global security situation is becoming increasingly unpredictable, unstable and interconnected, as demonstrated by the unilateral change of borders under use of force and the following unrest in Ukraine.

NATO NATO Partnerships
Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, May 14, 2014

NATOSource

May 22, 2014

Dempsey to Urge NATO Chiefs to Step Up Mediterranean Security

By Marcus Weisgerber, Navy Times

America’s top general plans to push his NATO counterparts to increase security contributions in southern Europe along the Mediterranean at a meeting of the alliance’s uniformed leaders this week.

NATO North Africa

New Atlanticist

May 22, 2014

The Ukraine Crisis: Is the Worst Over?

By Rajan Menon

Since November, when Ukraine’s political turmoil reached a critical point, we’ve seen a flood tide of punditry that can be described as follows: Lots of gloom, dollops of doom. It’s time for some (cautious) optimism. For internal and external reasons, Ukraine appears to have turned the corner.

Ukraine

MENASource

May 22, 2014

Top News: Libya Elections Commission to Announce June 25 as Date for New Legislative Elections

By MENASource

The Libyan Revolutionary Operations Room (LROR) has called on “true revolutionaries” serving in the armed forces to quit “temporarily,” according to a statement released this week. The statement called on revolutionaries to obtain the names of terrorists from their commanders, saying that the LROR would be “the head of the spear” dealing with any crimes […]

Aleksandr Borodai, a Russian nationalist militant from Moscow, speaks to reporters last week as the "prime minister" of the secessionist republic he wants to establish in Ukraine's Donetsk province.

New Atlanticist

May 22, 2014

A Ukraine Secessionist from Moscow Builds Greater Russia, One Province at a Time

By Irena Chalupa

Alexander Borodai Helped the Kremlin Seize Crimea; Now He’s ‘Prime Minister’ of Donetsk As leaders of the secessionist uprising in Ukraine’s Donetsk province go public this month, they turn out to be from Moscow, not Donetsk. Alexander Borodai, named last week as the “prime minister” of the Donetsk People’s Republic, is not only Muscovite, he’s […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

May 22, 2014

Sisi: A New Nasser or a New Sadat?

By Tom Dale

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has repeatedly been compared to former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but his own words suggest that the late president Anwar al-Sadat – who won popularity early in his tenure but ended his life unpopular and resented – may be the more instructive comparison.

Elections North Africa

MENASource

May 22, 2014

Top News: US-Egypt Military Ties will Depend on Egypt’s Actions, says US General

By EgyptSource

The future of US military ties with Egypt will depend on the actions of the future government, the top US military officer said ahead of Egyptian elections next week.

SouthAsiaSource

May 22, 2014

What to Expect From Indian Prime Minister Modi’s First Months in Office

By SouthAsiaSource

What should we expect from an Indian prime minister taking office with an assured majority in parliament for the first time in three decades? Suresh Prabhu is an ally of Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi, and is being discussed in New Delhi for a position either in Modi’s cabinet or on the national planning commission, according […]

India South Asia

SouthAsiaSource

May 21, 2014

As Modi Confronts His Economic Task, His Ally Should be Pakistan

By Shuja Nawaz

Amid the aftershocks of the political earthquake that has vaulted Narendra Modi into the strongest political position of any prime minster in decades, he faces two huge challenges.  He must remake  massive political, economic and bureaucratic machines that are resistant to change. With that as pre-requisite, he also must prepare the ground for an economic […]

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

May 21, 2014

NATO After Ukraine

By Bogdan Klich, Project Syndicate

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has dispelled doubts about NATO’s importance. But recognizing potential dangers is not the same as developing an effective response.

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