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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

Jun 26, 2012

NATO condemns Syria, declares solidarity with Turkey

By NATO

NATOSource

Jun 25, 2012

Turkey reveals coordinates where jet was hit and eventual crash site

By Column Lynch, Turtle Bay

From Column Lynch, Turtle Bay: Excerpts from Turkey’s letter to the United Nations Security Council On 22 June 2012, at 11;58 local time, a Turkish RF-4 type military aircraft was shot down by Syrian forces while flying solo and without arms 13 NM off the coast of Syria in international airspace at an altitude of […]

NATOSource

Jun 25, 2012

Cyber Weapons We Can’t Control

By Misha Glenny, the New York Times

From Misha Glenny, the New York Times:  The decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush’s presidency marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2012

European Political Union: What Would it Look Like?

By Julian Lindley-French

Cicero, that great defender of the Roman Republic and implacable opponent of those that would abuse power in the name of the people once said, “Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscene than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system”.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 25, 2012

Turkey: NATO should view Syria as attacking it

By Selcan Hacaoglu, the AP

NATOSource

Jun 25, 2012

Turkey says Syria opened fire on rescue plane

By the BBC

From the BBC:  Turkey says Syria fired on one of its planes that was taking part in a rescue operation for a warplane shot down by Syrian forces last week.

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2012

Why Iran Shouldn’t Get the Bomb: The Limits of IR Theory

By Robert Manning

In an essay creating shock and awe amongst the chattering class, Kenneth Waltz, one of the nation’s most prominent International Relations (IR) scholars and the doyen of the “realist” school tries to make the case “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs. While in some respects, this provocation is […]

Iran

NATOSource

Jun 25, 2012

Turkey has invoked NATO’s Article 4 before, over tensions with Iraq

By Adam Levine, CNN Security Clearance

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 25, 2012

Top News: Morsy Starts Consultations over Presidential Team

By Tarek Radwan

President-elect Mohamed Morsy moved into the office once occupied by ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and started consultations Monday over the formation of his presidential team and a new government, an aide said. Many supported Morsy as a representative of the uprising that toppled the old regime and a chance to challenge the military.

MENASource

Jun 25, 2012

Will Egypt Follow in the Footsteps of Iran’s 1979 Revolution?

By Merit Al-Sayed

As the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsy has claimed victory in the presidential election, observers have begun to draw parallels between the current state of Egypt’s democratic transition and that of 1979 Iran.   Today, the Egyptian political scene has never looked more bipolar: Citizens alternated between outbursts of joy and a pessimistic sense of […]

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