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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

Aug 7, 2013

Under Mubarak, Morsi or Sisi, Sinai Remains a Victim

By Mohannad Sabry

In mid-June, I got into a worn-down, eight-seater Mercedes that has been racing between Cairo and the Rafah Crossing Terminal for decades. The Egyptian capital was simmering in preparation for June 30, and Sinai was anxiously waiting for what could plunge the whole country into chaos. Several days before my trip, tribal chiefs had successfully […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 7, 2013

Jordan Ignores Domestic Discontent at its Own Peril

By Danya Greenfield and Brian Braun

Angry protestors in the Jordanian city of Karak and further south in Tafileh on August 2 denounced the government for the miserable conditions facing ordinary Jordanians: high unemployment, rising prices, corruption, and increased social violence across the kingdom. Despite the fact that the debate about political reform in Jordan has largely fallen off the radar, […]

New Atlanticist

Aug 7, 2013

John Kerry’s Pakistan Deja Vu

By Shuja Nawaz

“Time is running out” to help nuclear-armed Pakistan’s civilian government survive. That is what then-Senator John Kerry (D-MA) said in support of the recommendations of an Atlantic Council report that was released in February 2009. The report, which provided a comprehensive look at Western relations with Pakistan, estimated that, at that point, then-President Asif Ali Zardari’s government […]

Pakistan South Asia

New Atlanticist

Aug 7, 2013

Ergekenon–the Movie

By Ross Wilson

Turkey’s long-running case against alleged plotters to overthrow the government reached another milestone on August 5 when an Istanbul court handed down sentences in the so-called Ergenekon affair.  The results were astounding. According to lists published in the Turkish media, recapped below, the court handed out 22 life sentences plus 1267 years, 11 months, and […]

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2013

Obama’s Bad Bet on the Egyptian Military

By Rajan Menon

Egypt’s political chasm continues to widen following the military’s ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi, who, despite his many flaws and blunders, was the only democratically elected president in the country’s history.

North Africa Politics & Diplomacy

Trade in Action

Aug 6, 2013

Freeing Transatlantic Trade: The T-TIPping Point

By Garrett Workman

Speeches and Official Announcements Freeing Transatlantic Trade: The T-TIPping PointMartin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, fully supports TTIP and freeing transatlantic trade and investment. As he writes, TTIP could be an essential instrument to defend European and American democratic values and the free-market economic model. TTIP brings tangible benefits including €545 in average European […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Aug 5, 2013

Dying for the Sake of Democracy

By Mohammad Tolba

The conservative political movement has always had a fundamental dilemma in defining democracy: that is the people’s self-rule, which does not pertain to Sharia’s guidelines and divine provisions. Their fatwas repelled political participation, particularly in legislative elections, due to what they called violations of Sharia in legislative councils. During the 2005 elections, a fatwa was […]

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2013

John Kerry’s Six-Month Report Card

By R. Nicholas Burns

Until a few weeks ago, a small army of critics and armchair quarterbacks took aim at Secretary of State John Kerry’s first months in office in roughly similar fashion — too much globe-trotting, too many meetings, and too singular a focus on the lost cause of diplomacy — the 65-year search for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. […]

Iran National Security

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2013

A Momentous Month

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

In terms of terrorism and jihadist non-state actors, July was the single most momentous month since the Arab Uprisings began, and perhaps since September 2001. The impact of some of the past month’s developments are obvious, and will play out in the near term; for others, the significance will likely only be appreciated months or […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2013

Sun Tzu Would Disapprove of China’s Strategy

By Robert A. Manning

The ghosts of history continue to imperil the promise of an “Asian Century.” The latest in a troubling chain of events was the visit to Beijing recently by Japanese vice minister Akitaka Saiki aimed at mending frayed relations with China. Saiki had barely disembarked from his flight when the official Chinese media ruled out a […]

China
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