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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 14, 2013

Obama Accelerates Transition of Security to Afghans

By Mark Landler and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

From Mark Landler and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times:  President Obama, eager to turn the page after more than a decade of war, said Friday that beginning this spring American forces would play only a supporting role in Afghanistan, which opens the way for a more rapid withdrawal of the troops.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2013

Citing China’s increasing naval power, Japan seeking closer ties with NATO

By Liu Sha, Global Times

From Liu Sha, Global Times:  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will write a letter to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to call for closer ties in the face of China’s rising maritime power.

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2013

Banks seek NSA help amid attacks on their computer systems

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  Major U.S. banks have turned to the National Security Agency for help protecting their computer systems after a barrage of assaults that have disrupted their Web sites, according to industry officials.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2013

French defense ministry: Hostage killed by captors during commando raid in Somalia

By John Irish and Abdi Sheikh, Reuters

From John Irish and Abdi Sheikh, Reuters:  A French intelligence officer held hostage in Somalia since 2009 was killed along with at least one other soldier during a botched rescue attempt by French troops on Friday night

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2013

Video: First test flight of Germany’s EuroHawk, Europe’s largest drone

By Northrup Grumman)

From Northrup Grumman):  Northrop Grumman Corporation and EADS Deutschland GmbH, operating through Cassidian, together achieved a major milestone today with the first full system test flight of the EURO HAWK® unmanned aircraft system (UAS)

Drones Technology & Innovation

New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2013

Murder in France, Fragile Opening in Turkey

By Ross Wilson

Who carried out the execution of three women prominent in the European branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Paris on January 9 and what was their intended message are unclear.

France Turkey

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2013

France launches air strikes in Mali against Islamist rebels

By Elizabeth Pineau and Bate Felix, Reuters

From Elizabeth Pineau and Bate Felix, Reuters:  France carried out air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali on Friday as it began a military intervention intended to halt a drive southward by the militants who control the country’s desert north.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2013

French troops in Mali; Hollande vows to stop Islamists

By Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times

From Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times:  French troops have joined the Malian military in their fight to stop Islamist fighters from extending their reach into central Mali, President Francois Hollande said in a statement Friday.

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2013

Top U.S. General: Stopping Assad from using chemical weapons is ‘almost unachievable’

By Lolita C. Baldor, AP

From Lolita C. Baldor, AP:  Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that it will be nearly impossible to prevent the Syrian government from using its chemical weapons, so the U.S. must rely on deterrence and continue warning Syria that using them would be unacceptable.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jan 11, 2013

Reading into Cairo’s Cacophony of Newspapers

By Miriam Berger

“Egyptians read newspapers like they smoke cigarettes,” Ahmed, 57, a newspaper seller on Tala’at Harb Street off of Tahrir square told me—while smoking a cigarette. It is true that in today’s multimedia age print papers have undeniably lost their past hegemony; by all accounts, television is now the alpha medium in Egypt. But since the […]

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