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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

Mar 28, 2013

Top News: Liberals, Islamists at Odds Over Controversial Protest Law

By Egypt Source

A new law governing protests, approved in principle by the Shura Council Tuesday, has sparked anger among the opposition’s political forces. Opponents, comprised mostly of liberal, secular and revolutionary youth groups, criticized the bill, saying it restricts Egyptians’ right to demonstrate peacefully. Meanwhile, the law’s supporters, who are mainly Islamist factions, said the legislation is […]

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Syrian opposition leader: U.S. rebuff of Patriot request helps Assad

By Yara Bayoumy and William Maclean, Reuters

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

White House and NATO chief rule out using Patriot missiles to support Syrian rebels

By AFP

From AFP:  The White House said Tuesday that NATO would not provide Patriot missile batteries to protect rebel strongholds in Syria, following a request from opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib.

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Video: Opposition leader asks U.S. and NATO to use Patriot missiles to protect northern Syria

By Sami Aboudi and Yara Bayoumy, Reuters

From Sami Aboudi and Yara Bayoumy, Reuters:  Speaking at an annual gathering of Arab leaders in the Gulf state of Qatar, Moaz Alkhatib said he had asked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for American forces to help defend rebel-controlled northern parts of Syria with Patriot surface-to-air missiles

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Most Australian troops to leave Afghanistan this year

By Rod McGuirk, AP

From Rod McGuirk, AP:  Most Australian troops in Afghanistan will be home by the end of the year when the international military base at Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province closes, Defense Minister Stephen Smith said Tuesday.

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Largest public cyber attack in history reveals multiplying threat and long ignored security flaw

By John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times

From John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times:  A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 27, 2013

Reason Finally Gets a Voice: The Tallinn Manual on Cyber War and International Law

By Jason Healey

No longer can a professed cyber expert pronounce, “When is a cyber attack an act of war? This is an interesting question.”  The Tallinn Manual, compiled by a distinguished group of legal scholars and to be launched tomorrow at an Atlantic Council event, asks this and many more questions and—a novelty for the field of cyber […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Italy’s foreign minister resigns over return of marines to India

By AFP

From AFP:  Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said Tuesday he was resigning in protest after two Italian marines were ordered to return to India to face murder charges.

New Atlanticist

Mar 27, 2013

Shocking and Awing

By Harlan Ullman

Ten years ago this month, the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom against Saddam Hussein.

Iraq Security & Defense

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

French defense cuts ‘could harm British military partnership’

By Henry Samuel and Damien McElroy, Telegraph

From Henry Samuel and Damien McElroy, Telegraph:  French government plans for severe defence cuts could jeopardise its military entente cordiale with Britain, “kill” its conventional army and render interventions such as that in Mali impossible, Gallic defence officials have warned.

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