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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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Symbol of Russia's Federal Security Service

NATOSource

Sep 20, 2013

Hundreds of Russians Fighting as Mercenaries in Syria – FSB

By RIA Novosti

Some 300 to 400 Russians are fighting in the Syrian civil war as soldiers of fortune, a senior official in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) told reporters on Friday.

Russia Syria

MENASource

Sep 20, 2013

Episode 1: The Brotherhood I Know

By Mohammad Tolba

This is the first in a series of articles about Mohammad Tolba’s personal experience over the past ten years with the Muslim Brotherhood. Fajr Prayer, Spring 2000 This is how it all began. One of my friends passed away in a tragic car accident. I, like many people who experience this kind of loss, tried […]

North Africa
Missile Defense Test, May 16, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2013

Aegis Missile Defense System Successfully Intercepted Target Warhead

By Department of Defense

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test today [9/18/13] of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system

Missile Defense Security & Defense
Swearing-in Ceremony for Victoria Nuland, Sept. 18, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2013

Top US Diplomat for Europe Calls for a “Transatlantic Renaissance”

By John Kerry and Victoria Nuland, Department of State

Secretary of State John Kerry: [I]n Brussels, Toria helped guide NATO through a very critical and uncertain time when Article 5 was invoked in September of 2001

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Sep. 19, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2013

Secretary General Examines NATO’s Need for Capabilities, Burden Sharing, and Partnerships

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

We live in a world in transition. And transition often leads to turmoil and turbulence.

Cybersecurity Missile Defense
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Feb. 22, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2013

NATO Secretary General Condemns Slaying of EULEX Staff Member in Kosovo

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I strongly condemn the attack on a EULEX convoy which led to the death of one Lithuanian staff member of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. Such violence is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Sep 19, 2013

Can Germany Be a Civil Superpower?

By Julian Lindley-French

The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘superpower’ as a “very powerful and influential nation.” On September 22, democratic Germany will go to the polls. Some commentators and politicians are posing what they believe to be a fundamental and existential question implicit in the election – a German Europe or a European Germany? The Economist in a […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

MENASource

Sep 19, 2013

Top News: Qaddafi’s Son Saif Appears in Libyan Court

By MENASource

Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, prominent son of the ousted Muammar Qaddafi, appeared in court in the city of Zintan, and his trial was adjourned until December. There are unconfirmed reports he was brought to Tripoli for a separate pretrial hearing.

MENASource

Sep 19, 2013

Top News: Egypt Police Storm Kerdasa, One Officer Killed

By EgyptSource

Egyptian security forces clashed with gunmen on the outskirts of Cairo on Thursday as the army-backed government moved to reassert control over an Islamist-dominated area where political violence broke out last month.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 19, 2013

There Will Be No Syrian Solution Until the Shelling Stops

By Frederic C. Hof

“Government forces continued to rely on heavy and often indiscriminate firepower to target areas they were unwilling or unable to recapture through ground operations. A variety of fire assets, including missiles, jet fighters and artillery, were systematically employed against restive localities to prevent a return to normality under armed group control and to sanction the […]

Syria
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