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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 of Defense Chuck Hagel, May 7, 2013

NATOSource

Feb 19, 2014

Hagel: ‘We Still Need Bases’ in Europe

By Department of Defense

Excerpts from remarks by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Kenneth Feinberg, February 18, 2014.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

MENASource

Feb 19, 2014

Top News: UN moves to prevent force against Libyan MPs

By MENASource

UN Libya envoy Tarek Mitri agreed with Libyan militia groups to allow political forces seventy-two hours to resolve a dispute over the legislature’s mandate extension, forming a new interim cabinet, and a plan to hold early presidential elections.

New Atlanticist

Feb 19, 2014

How to Avoid All-Out War in Ukraine

By Sabine Freizer

Ukraine is on fire. Though it is part of the same Black Sea region as Turkey and a solid economic partner, Kiev is far from many minds in Turkey. The few that are paying attention are making comparisons between the violence during the Gezi protests and what is happening today in Ukraine’s squares. Some comparisons […]

Turkey Ukraine

MENASource

Feb 19, 2014

Portrait of a Grave Dweller

By Sarah El-Rashidi

Tucked away in Cairo’s colorful Sayida Aisha cemetery, located near the Darb al-Ahmar district, resides 74-year-old ‘Am Amin, a local grave custodian, born and raised in the necropolis. “I have never left the cemetery, I was born and raised here, this is my home,” he says. ‘Am Amin a former carpet weaver by trade and […]

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 19, 2014

Top News: Egypt Expecting $9 Billion in Aid From Gulf States: Al-Ahram

By EgyptSource

Egypt is expecting an aid package worth a total of $9.1 billion from Gulf countries within a few weeks, including $2.9 billion from the UAE, as part of a development assistance agreement.

MENASource

Feb 19, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 19, 2014

By EconSource

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

New Atlanticist

Feb 19, 2014

Ukraine Nears Civil War

By New Atlanticist

US, EU Must Sanction Kyiv Authorities, Wilson Says The newly violent confrontation in Kyiv between the government and protesters has shoved Ukraine’s three-month-old crisis into a new, more dangerous phase that poses increased risk of a civil war, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky says. The attack by police on Tuesday against demonstrators demanding a […]

Ukraine
Former Finnish Minister of Defense Elisabeth Rehn at the Pentagon, May 19, 1993

NATOSource

Feb 18, 2014

Former Finnish Defense Minister Rehn: I am No Longer Sure About the Strength of NATO

By Lithuania Tribune

The chief editor of The Lithuania Tribune Ruslanas Iržikevičius talked to Elisabeth Rehn, former Minister of Defence of Finland.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Feb 18, 2014

Why Egypt Matters to the UAE

By EgyptSource

With the fall of former president Mohamed Morsi in early July, several Gulf countries have propped up Egypt’s failing economy with a stream of cash pledged to the North African country. Mere days after Morsi’s fall, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Kuwait together had already pledged $8 billion to Egypt. Of the […]

North Africa The Gulf

MENASource

Feb 18, 2014

Syria: Back To Basics

By Frederic C. Hof

In his 2014 Munich Security Conference remarks, Henry Kissinger commented that democracies must, in foreign policy, articulate clear objectives within parameters that the public can support. In the specific case of Syria, said Kissinger, the objective has to be about more than the removal of a person. Ideally the Obama administration used the pause offered […]

Syria
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