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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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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, May 8, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 9, 2013

Failure to Launch Military Strike Against Syria will be Taken as a Sign of Western Weakness, says NATO SecGen

By James Tapsfield, Independent

The head of Nato has warned that failure to launch military reprisals against Syria will be taken as a sign of Western “weakness”, as Barack Obama struggles to get congressional support for action.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Sep 9, 2013

Top News: Constitution Panel Elects Moussa Head, Sets 75 Percent Vote to Approve Articles

By EgyptSource

Former liberal-leaning presidential candidate Amr Moussa has been elected ٍas head of Egypt’s fifty-strong constitution-drafting committee.The committee agreed on Monday that controversial articles will be settled by a 75 percent vote if their initial referral to a specialized ‘consensus committee’ fails to garner the agreement of all members. 

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2013

Hadley Weighs in on Syria

In an opinion column in Sunday’s Washington Post, Atlantic Council Board Director Stephen Hadley put a simple case before readers for supporting military force in response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons. Every American committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon should urge Congress to grant President Obama authority to use military force […]

Syria
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Sep 9, 2013

Secretary General Opens NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence in Lithuania

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

It is a great honour to open this NATO Centre of Excellence on Energy Security. When we wrote our new Strategic Concept three years ago, we emphasised the importance of energy security.

NATO Security & Defense
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt

NATOSource

Sep 9, 2013

Sweden Lashes Out at Russian ‘Economic Warfare’ in East Europe

By Justyna Pawlak and Adrian Croft, Reuters

Sweden accused Russia on Friday of waging “economic warfare” against former Soviet republics that have been considering closer trade relations with the European Union and said the EU needed a strategy to resist Moscow.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Sep 9, 2013

Syria: Keeping Hope For Peace Alive

By Fred Hof

There can be no prospect for a negotiated end to the Syrian nightmare so long as Syrian civilians are targeted by Bashar al-Assad’s regime for terror, death, injury, and flight.

Syria

New Atlanticist

Sep 9, 2013

Eye on Syria: Arab League Says Assad Crossed “Global Red Line”

News Arab League Says Assad Crossed “Global Red Line” with Chemical Attack, The NationalArab League members said Saturday the use of chemical weapons in Syria had crossed “a global red line” and some threw their support behind a US strike. If Given Go-Ahead in Syria, US Navy Would Face Complex Mission, Washington PostIf President Obama […]

Syria

New Atlanticist

Sep 8, 2013

No More Baby Steps: Pentagon Needs a Real Strategic Review

By Barry Pavel and James Joyner

The United States must fundamentally rethink its defense strategy in light of major changes in both funding and the security challenges we face in the world.

MENASource

Sep 6, 2013

This Week in Egypt – September 6, 2013

By Amira Mikhail

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 6, 2013

Muslims and Islamists in Syria

By Faysal Itani

A recent exchange between Senator John McCain and Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade reflected a disturbingly popular view of the Syrian uprising: that it is a jihadist phenomenon, dominated by groups just as or even more hostile to the US than the regime.

Syria
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