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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

Jul 16, 2012

Public Opinion Plays Witness to Egypt’s Military Trials

By Nancy Messieh

When prison doors were flung open in January 2011, releasing both political prisoners and criminal convicts, it gave rise to what is possibly one of the most overused words in Egypt’s lexicon today: baltageya. Often translated as ‘thugs’, it is weighed down with far more connotations and negativity than the four letter English word affords […]

MENASource

Jul 16, 2012

Top News: Clinton Calls on SCAF to Return to National Security Duties

By Tarek Radwan

Following a close to 90-minute meeting with President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo this afternoon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the time has come for the military to return to its national security duties and to allow Morsi to assume his full presidential authorities. Clinton spoke at a joint press conference with Egyptian […]

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2012

Is running out of money Assad’s decisive weakness?

By Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS

From Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS:  Another telling indicator of dissent is the number of silent objectors in the army.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jul 13, 2012

US and NATO Options for Dealing with Assad

By Sarwar Kashmeri

“Assad must go” seems to be the only refrain in Washington and Brussels. However, America’s national interests may lie in a different direction. Kurt Volker, former US Ambassador to NATO, joins in conversation with Sarwar Kashmeri, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. (8 minute audio podcast)

Syria

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2012

NATO signs two satellite capacity agreements for its UAV program

By Peter B. de Selding, Space News

From Peter B. de Selding, Space News: NATO is stepping up its purchase of commercial Ka- and Ku-band satellite capacity

Drones Technology & Innovation

New Atlanticist

Jul 13, 2012

Ghosts of History 1, Asian Security 0

By Robert A. Manning

As Secretary of State Clinton and Asia-Pacific ministers gathered in Phnom Penh for a series of security meetings, the telling reality of regional security occurred elsewhere.

China East Asia

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2012

Is it time to scrap the concept of “Eastern Europe?”

The Economist argues that lumping the former communist countries into a single category is "outdated and damaging." (photo: prague.fm)

NATOSource

Jul 13, 2012

U.S. defense companies prepare for decade-long downturn

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

Cybersecurity Drones

MENASource

Jul 13, 2012

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Between a Present with Qatar and a Future with Libya

By Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

The results of the Libyan elections have come through. Contrary to the tide that saw a rise of Islamist parties across the region, the Islamists in Libya failed to garner a majority. Instead a secular party started by Mahmoud Jibril, a senior official in the Gaddafi government who joined the rebels early in the 2011 […]

MENASource

Jul 13, 2012

Top News: Thousands in Tahrir Protest Against HCC Ruling Rejecting Morsi’s Decree

By Tarek Radwan

Sheikh Mazhar Shaheen, the "revolutionary" imam  of Omar Makram mosque, has called on the judiciary not to "abort the revolution" by defying President Mohamed Morsi during his Friday prayer speech to thousands of protesters gathered on Tahrir Square in support of Morsi’s 8 July decree reinstating parliament. The "Friday of Endurance" demonstration was called for […]

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