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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

Jan 29, 2013

Top News: Suez Canal residents defy President Morsi’s curfew

By Egypt Source

The three Suez Canal cities of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said witnessed mass demonstrations in defiance of the regional curfew that was announced Sunday night by President Mohamed Morsi after several days of violent clashes.

New Atlanticist

Jan 29, 2013

Britain’s History of Hedging on Europe

By Rajan Menon

First there was talk of a possible “Grexit,” the forced departure of a bankrupt Greece from the EU. Now, with British prime minister David Cameron’s Wednesday announcement that he will put the question of the UK’s continued membership to vote should his Conservative Party win the 2015 election, there’s speculation about what might be called […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jan 29, 2013

Syria: Transitional Government and US Choices

By Frederic C. Hof

The prospect of the Syrian opposition forming a provisional or transitional government brings to the fore fundamental decisions for the United States: decisions that would have to be taken or openly reaffirmed before Syrian Opposition Coalition President Moaz al-Khatib visits Washington sometime in February. Washington’s enthusiasm for the emergence of a government offering an alternative […]

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MENASource

Jan 28, 2013

Escalating Protests Spring from Enduring Problems

By Michele Dunne

A specific incident–the sentencing to death of 21 youths in the case of the fatal soccer riot in Port Said one year ago–ignited the protests now rocking Port Said, Suez, Alexandria, and to a lesser degree Cairo in which at least 50 have been killed over four days.  But the current demonstrations and related political […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 28, 2013

Europe and the Holocaust

By Julian Lindley-French

Yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day, the sixty-eighth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet forces which last year I visited to pay homage to the murdered. Here in the Netherlands Anne Frank wrote “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes […]

Europe & Eurasia

NATOSource

Jan 28, 2013

Mali and the demise of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy

By Giovanni Faleg, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

From Giovanni Faleg, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS):  For those who believed that the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) was still in good shape after Libya and looked with hope at the new missions launched last summer in the Horn of Africa, South Sudan, and Niger, the unfortunate news is that the tide […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 28, 2013

China’s growing interest in the Arctic ‘raises concern – even alarm – in the international community’

By Christoph Seidler, Spiegel

From Christoph Seidler, Spiegel:  You didn’t hear much Chinese spoken on the Mackenzie River until the summer of 1999

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Jan 28, 2013

Putin orders Russia’s intelligence service to expand cyber protection

By Andrei Soldatov, Moscow Times

From Andrei Soldatov, Moscow Times:  President Vladimir Putin recently ordered the Federal Security Service to create a system to allow the state to detect, prevent and disable cyberattacks in Russia and at diplomatic stations abroad.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

MENASource

Jan 28, 2013

Top News: President Morsi declares state of emergency in Canal cities, NSF rejects calls for dialogue

By Egypt Source

Egypt President Mohamed Morsi  Sunday declared a 30-day state of emergency in Port Said, Suez and Ismailia, and called for national dialogue. The NSF, along with other members of the opposition, have rejected these calls. 

NATOSource

Jan 28, 2013

Why France Can’t Fight

By Wall Street Journal

From Wall Street Journal:  The French armed forces field some of the world’s most sophisticated fighter jets, nuclear submarines, attack helicopters and armored vehicles.

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