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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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MENASource

Dec 19, 2013

Top News: US Senate bill allows room for aid to return to Egypt

By MENASource

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly passed legislation on Wednesday to ease tight US controls on aid to Egypt, which was largely cut off after Egypt’s military ousted President Mohamed Morsi last summer.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2013

Rasmussen: Europeans Must be Smarter and Stronger Together

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

On the other side of town, we truly appreciate the European Union’s focus on defence and security. Because we agree that defence matters.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Dec 19, 2013

Top News: Police Storm Rights Organization, Arrest Employees

By EgyptSource

Security forces stormed the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) late Wednesday night, arresting several people, and confiscating laptops and other materials from the center.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy Catherine Ashton

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2013

Ashton: To Secure Peace, Be Ready for Battle

By Catherine Ashton, Wall Street Journal

An effective and coherent security and defense policy is a necessity, not a luxury, for Europe.

Cybersecurity Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Dec 19, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 19, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 19, 2013

Duncan Pickard on Tunisia’s Transitional Process

By MENASource

Tunisia’s transition to a democratic system has recently faced tremendous obstacles as political players negotiate for power. Commentators express worry that the longer the political impasse between Islamist and secular groups continues, the more likely that Tunisia’s process could be derailed.

North Africa
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 5, 2013

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Our European Allies Lack Critical Capability’

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Europe must urgently face up to its responsibilities in defence, or face a security crisis on its borders and international marginalisation, according to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of Nato.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 19, 2013

The Pemex Door Has Opened

Latin America Center Director Peter Schechter and Deputy Director Jason Marczak wrote a guest blog for the Financial Times to coincide with the newly published briefing on Mexico’s energy reform. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto capped a year of reform with a final act that far exceeded expectations of the 47-year-old leader’s first year. Energy […]

MENASource

Dec 18, 2013

EIPR Issues Statement on Egypt’s 2013 New Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

On Wednesday, human rights organization, the Egyptian Initiative to Protect Rights (EIPR), issued a statement on the new draft constitution recently approved by interim president, Adly Mansour. As Egyptians prepare to take to the polls on January 14 and 15, to vote in a referendum on the constitution, EIPR’s statement, while describing the new constitution […]

North Africa Political Reform

New Atlanticist

Dec 18, 2013

Ukraine’s Russian Deal: Not Really a Big Victory for Putin

By Adrian Karatnycky

Passions are flaring today – in the streets of Kyiv, and in government buildings across the European Union and in Washington – over yesterday’s announcement of Russian financial support for Ukraine. EU officials are issuing warnings that the deal is shortsighted and  will retard Ukraine’s modernization. Ukrainian opposition politicians and leaders of its mass protest […]

Ukraine
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