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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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NATOSource

Jan 19, 2013

U.S. decision to downsize air base, ’causes much concern to the Portuguese government’

By Karen Parrish,  American Forces Press Service

From Karen Parrish,  American Forces Press Service:  [Portuguese Defense Minister Jose Pedro] Aguiar-Branco opened the joint news conference in the Portuguese capital.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2013

Are Drones Really Working?

By Danya Greenfield

President Obama’s nomination of John Brennan, who currently serves as the White House Senior Advisor for Counterterrorism, should occasion a debate regarding how the United States can best confront, respond to, or mitigate our most pressing security challenges, including the current counterterrorism strategy. In particular, John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director should spur re-evaluation of […]

Drones National Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2013

Guiding the US Army War College in an Age of Austerity

By Sarwar Kashmeri

Budget cutbacks, war weariness, a world of stateless actors, against whom conventional warfare seems to achieve little. These are the strategic realities faced by the new commandant of the US Army War College. MG Tony Cucolo III discusses his challenges with Sarwar Kashmeri, senior fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and adjunct professor, Norwich […]

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2013

Panetta: NATO Needs to Join U.S. Rebalance to Asia-Pacific

By Marcus Wiesgerber, DefenseNews

From Marcus Wiesgerber, DefenseNews:  U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on NATO to become a more flexible fighting force that can tackle a broad range of conflicts and urged European allies to join the Pentagon’s shift to the Asia-Pacific region.

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2013

Middle class German couple ‘spied for Russia for 20 years’

By Matthew Day, Telegraph

From Matthew Day, Telegraph:  Prosecutors alleged the husband and wife, identified only by their aliases Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag, spied on Nato and the European Union in a career that lasted more than two decades

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jan 17, 2013

The Mubarak Retrial: A Principled Quest for Justice

By Basil El Dabh

As with most things in Egypt, just when it looks like something is over, it isn’t. Last week, Egypt’s Court of Cassation ruled that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and six of their aides would be retried.  The initial sentence, handed down last June, sentenced the defendants to 25-year life sentences […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 17, 2013

Needed: A Brain-Based Approach to Strategy

By Harlan Ullman

Suppose you are in great health, exceedingly fit and athletically gifted. During a routine medical checkup, you receive some very bad news. You have developed a degenerative condition. Without a lengthy and painful course of treatment, in five years time or less, you will be hardly able to walk, let alone run or play any […]

Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2013

NATO officer: ISAF not preparing ‘zero option,’ total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Peter Spiegel, Financial Times

From Peter Spiegel, Financial Times:  Allied commanders in Afghanistan have not been asked to prepare a “zero option” for troop levels after the US-led mission concludes next year

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2013

Dempsey and NATO defense chiefs plan Afghan transition

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service

From Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service: With just 23 months until the end of the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, Afghan forces are poised to move into the lead operationally

MENASource

Jan 17, 2013

Top News: Islamist MPs to rubber stamp a new election law Thursday

By Egypt Source

The 270-member upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, today began debating the new controversial election law, approved by the council’s Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee Tuesday, with the majority of Islamists expected to rubber-stamp the legislation at the end of a plenary meeting Thursday.

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