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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

Oct 31, 2012

Top News: Ministry of Education and Al-Azhar to Discuss Education Reform

By Egypt Source

Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Education (MoE) have agreed to work together in order to reform the education system in Egypt. The reforms are to be implemented at the start of the next academic year. 

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2012

Would Romney White House Be a Trick or Treat?

By Harlan Ullman

On Oct. 31, in many countries, tens of millions of children will don costumes to celebrate Halloween and go “trick or treating” for candy and other trinkets. Encouraging treats is meant to discourage tricks. And costumes in the United States range from scary Frankenstein monster lookalikes to movie characters and celebrities such as Superman, Hollywood […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2012

2014: NATO Year Zero

By Julian Lindley-French

As I write this I am gazing down from on high over-looking the Po Valley that separates Bologna from Milan re-thinking NATO. That in any case was the title of the conference I have just attended (high level of course); Dynamic Change: Re-thinking NATO. Still, as I wrapped up the conference in my now accustomed […]

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2012

Concerned about potential terrorist attacks, Russia boosts security at missile launch sites

By RIA Novosti

MENASource

Oct 31, 2012

What We Can Learn from Alber Saber’s Case

By Ahmed Naje

1.      Never Call the Police Alber Saber’s case may seem no different from other religious defamation trials that we have come to know about through the media. At the heart of it, however, this is not really a case about religious defamation, but rather is a personal attack during which religion happened to be defamed.

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2012

Kommersant: Plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying 12 crates of parts for Syrian missile defense

By AFP

From AFP:  Russia is in contact with Turkey to recover a cargo confiscated by Ankara from a Moscow-Damascus passenger plane but so far no progress has been made, a senior foreign ministry official said Wednesday.

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2012

Erdogan: EU will lose Turkey if it hasn’t joined by 2023

By Orhan Coskun, Reuters

From Orhan Coskun, Reuters:  The European Union will lose Turkey if it doesn’t grant it membership by 2023, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2012

Clinton to Bosnia: ‘We want to see you in NATO’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State

From Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State:  The United States shares with the European Union a vision of a peaceful, stable, prosperous Bosnia-Herzegovina that is fully integrated into the Euro-Atlantic institutions.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2012

Report on NATO’s Libya op reveals Denmark ‘bought munitions from Israel to bomb an Arab-world country’

By Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News

From Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News:  The accidental release of a Danish Defense Forces’ (DDF) report critical of NATO’s command structures and inability to direct bombing missions in Libya in 2011 has provoked political controversy, after it emerged the Danish Air Force bought munitions from Israel.

MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

Top News: Govt Scheme Aims to Increase Sinai Population Through Land Reclamation

By Egypt Source

The government has slated 80,000 feddans of land near Al Salam Canal in Sinai for auction, to be exclusively bid on by Sinai residents. Prime Minister Hesham Qandil announced the plan on Monday as part of government efforts to increase Sinai’s population to 3 million within five years. 

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