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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

Apr 15, 2014

What We’re Reading: April 15

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Apr 15, 2014

Top News: Tunisian MPs Denounce Light Verdicts for Ben Ali Officials

By MENASource

On Monday, a Tunisian military court announced that two former Ben Ali officials, the former head of presidential security and the former interior minister, would only serve three year sentences. Jalel Boudriga, former chief of Tunisia’s special brigades, had his sentence commuted from ten to three years.

MENASource

Apr 15, 2014

Top News: Justice Ministry to Review Anti-Terrorism Bill; Cairo University Clashes Results in Student Death

By EgyptSource

Two controversial counter-terrorism bills are scheduled for review by the Justice Ministry, the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Monday.

MENASource

Apr 15, 2014

Remembering Patrick Seale and the Syria He Loved (Foreword by Frederic Hof)

By Walid Joumblat

The passing of author Patrick Seale offers an opportunity to reflect on what has become of the country he loved and whose history he chronicled: Syria. The Struggle for Syria, first published in 1965, was and remains a classic: essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Syria—even, or perhaps especially, the Syria of 2014.

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Russian soldiers seize more public buildings in Eastern Ukraine

NATOSource

Apr 14, 2014

Strong Sanctions May Have Prevented Russia’s Intervention in Eastern Ukraine

By Editorial Board, Washington Post

A tough Western reaction might have stopped the Russian offensive after last weekend. Now it is far more dangerous.

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Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, April 16, 2013

NATOSource

Apr 14, 2014

Prime Minister Katainen: Finland Should Join NATO

By Yle

[Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki] Katainen expressed his opinion that Finland should consider NATO membership along with Sweden, when the time is right.

NATO NATO Partnerships

New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2014

NATO and the New Conventional Deterrence

By Henrik Breitenbauch

Russia’s assaults on Ukraine this spring are about to revive an old idea within NATO that has not been in vogue since the Cold War: conventional deterrence . Russia’s ready use of military force in Ukraine, Georgia and beyond puts its non-NATO neighbors very much at risk of military intervention. President Putin’s fracturing of the region’s […]

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FutureSource

Apr 14, 2014

Beyond Today’s Internet

By Thomas A. Campbell

When the precursor to today’s Internet, the ARPANET, had its first nodes connected in 1969, only a handful of computer scientists knew about it. Now most of the world is dependent on the Internet’s vast web of links, tweets, posts, and likes for commerce, communication, and socialization. But could the Internet of future generations be […]

MENASource

Apr 14, 2014

YemenSource | New Model for Yemen’s Interior Ministry

By MENASource

Yemen’s interior ministry, in an attempt to fill leadership roles, is experimenting with a new way of vetting and promoting officers to senior posts, one not prone to cronyism or other forms of corruption. An evaluation committee has been formed to assess applications. As part of the process, applicants are required to submit an autobiography […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2014

In the War for Ukraine, Russian Gunmen Seem Organized, But No-One Else

By Irena Chalupa

Amid the fighting that has spread across towns in southeastern Ukraine, local Russian- and Ukrainian-language websites and news organizations depict a battle in which squads of Russian gunmen are moving and fighting in tight, militarized formations to seize more government buildings and police headquarters. They are fearsomely aggressive, heavily armed, and well organized. The government […]

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