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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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Chairman of the Military Committee Knuds Bartels, June, 19, 2012

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2013

Head of NATO Military Committee Visits Iceland

By NATO

On a two-day visit to Iceland, General Knud Bartels, Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, highlighted Iceland’s commitment to supporting NATO Air Surveillance missions and recognized its important role in promoting coast guard cooperation in the Arctic.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 24, 2013

Fixing the Financial System

By Andrew Chrismer

What the G20 Reform Commitments Could Mean for the Transatlantic Economic Relationship As the world’s economies rebound from the global recession, international institutions including the European Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Group of Twenty (G20) have begun to get serious about fixing the global financial system. 

Economy & Business
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 4, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2013

Head of NATO Condemns Nairobi Terrorist Attack

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I strongly condemn the terrorist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, which killed and injured so many people, including citizens of NATO nations.

East Africa NATO

MENASource

Sep 24, 2013

Algeria’s Facelift Ignores the Disease

By Karim Mezran

After months of speculation about Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika’s deteriorating health and predicted incapacity to run the country, Bouteflika has demonstrated he cannot be written off quickly or lightly.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Sep 23, 2013

Advocates Join Forces to Explore Impact of TTIP on All 50 States

In summer 2013, representatives of the United States and European Union opened negotiations to establish the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which seeks to deepen the relationship between the world’s two leading economies and create the world’s largest free trade area. The effort will align the two regions’ regulatory regimes, strengthening the economies without […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Royal Marines Commando in Training

NATOSource

Sep 23, 2013

Britain Considering Keeping 400 Troops in Afghanistan after 2014

By Ben Farmer, Telegraph

The proposal is the first official acknowledgment that Britain could keep forces in the province where nearly 450 troops have died in seven years of fighting.

Afghanistan NATO
Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, Dec. 13, 2012

NATOSource

Sep 23, 2013

The Dutch Cut NATO!

By Julian Lindley-French

Last week in a “Defence Note” carefully buried in an announcement on the wider national budget the Netherlands cut some €370m (c$400m) from an already straitened defence budget.

NATO Security & Defense
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the UN, Sept. 19, 2011

NATOSource

Sep 23, 2013

Five Years of Strengthened Cooperation Between NATO and the United Nations

By NATO

This week the focus is on New York as world leaders, including NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, gather for the annual plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Afghanistan International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Sep 23, 2013

Photos from Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi

Terrorists attacked an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, September 21. Since early 2012, experts from the Africa Center have talked about the likelihood of Kenya becoming a target for Somali terrorist groups. We’re aggregating relevant content, including media appearances and publications.Below are photo galleries from the initial attack and from earlier today when […]

East Africa

MENASource

Sep 23, 2013

Top News: Egypt Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood Group

By EgyptSource

A court in Cairo has banned “all activities” by the Muslim Brotherhood. The ruling on Monday applies to the group, its NGO and “any organization derived from it,” presiding judge, Mohamed al-Sayed said.

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