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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 2, 2013

Top News: Egypt May See Presidential Vote First, President to Receive Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

The fifty member Constituent Assembly tasked with amending the 2012 constitution finished its final vote on the constitution on Sunday evening, pending four contentious articles which did not pass. The committee is scheduled to hand the draft document to Interim President Adly Mansour on Tuesday. Egypt’s political transition was pitched into uncertainty on Sunday when a draft constitution […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2013

Slavin Talks Iran with NPR News Weekend Edition

By Barbara Slavin

NPR News’ Weekend Edition host Scott Simon spoke with the South Asia Center’s Barbara Slavin about the Iran deal. Slavin believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be doing Iran a favor by criticizing the deal so harshly. Transcript and audio from the interview below.

Iran

MENASource

Dec 2, 2013

Top News: Egypt may see presidential vote held first, President to receive draft constitution

By MENASource

Egypt’s political transition was pitched into uncertainty on Sunday when a draft constitution was amended to allow a presidential election to be held before parliamentary polls, indicating a potential change in the army’s roadmap. The fifty-member committee concluded Sunday night its amendment of the 2012 constitution, after passing four articles that failed to get the […]

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MENASource

Dec 2, 2013

Highlights from Egypt’s Draft Constitution (Part 1)

By Mai El-Sadany

In preparation for a popular referendum which will take place on Egypt’s newest Constitution within thirty days of formal approval, the fifty-member Constituent Assembly appointed by interim President Adly Mansour began to vote on the full text of its draft Constitution on November 30, 2013. The work of the Assembly, which began on September 8, […]

North Africa Political Reform

Trade in Action

Dec 2, 2013

What We’re Reading | November 26

Onto Round 3!US chief TTIP negotiator Dan Mullaney and EU chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero shake hands after the conclusion of the second round of negotiations in Brussels on November 15.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Dec 1, 2013

NATO Chief Urges All Parties in Ukraine to ‘Refrain from Violence’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Tonight in Kyiv, many Ukrainians continue to show their strong support for their country’s closer relations with the European Union.

NATO NATO Partnerships

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2013

Pavel and Kroenig Discuss Iran Deal on This Week in Defense

Council Vice President and Director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Barry Pavel and Senior Fellow Matt Kroenig appeared on This Week in Defense with Vago Muradian to discuss the deal that’s been struck on Iran’s nuclear program. Watch the full interview. For more expert analysis and reactions to the deal, check out […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 22, 2013

NATOSource

Nov 30, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Vilnius Summit is a Defining Moment’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I welcome the results of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 27, 2013

Ukraine’s Snubbing of Europe Sparks Political Crisis

By Taras Kuzio

Last Thursday’s government decision to cancel plans to seek an Association Agreement with the EU at the Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership, which starts tomorrow, has sparked a mass protest by one hundred thousand people in Kyiv that bring back memories of the Orange Revolution nine years ago. The EU had turned up the […]

Eastern Europe European Union
Airmen salute C-130E Hercules departing Ramstein AFB

NATOSource

Nov 27, 2013

The Implications of US ‘Strategic Restraint’ for the Transatlantic Relationship

By German Marshall Fund of the United States

Exhausted by 12 years of costly and indecisive warfare, Americans are no longer willing to stand at the fore-front when their vital interests are not directly at stake.

Europe & Eurasia United States and Canada
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