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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 12, 2012

We isolate and overload Germany at our peril

By Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times

From Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times:  Of course, nobody questions modern Germany’s democratic credentials.

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2012

Post-Stuxnet: The era of computer-mediated destruction has begun

By R. Scott Kemp, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

From R. Scott Kemp, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:  While digital spying has taken place for decades, the era of computer-mediated destruction has only recently begun.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2012

Clinton: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters

By Bradley Klapper, the AP

From Bradley Klapper, the AP:  The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s regime and warned that the Arab country’s 15-month conflict could become even deadlier.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 12, 2012

Top News: Non-Islamists Threaten Second Walkout from Constituent Assembly

By Tarek Radwan

A mere 24 hours before electing the 100 members of Egypt’s Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution, The Egyptian Bloc parties – which include the Free Egyptians party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and the leftist Tagammu Party – announced on Monday that they would withdraw from the body so as to allow […]

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2012

Investigating NATO’s response to reported civilian casualties

By Marc Garlasco, the Washington Post

From Marc Garlasco, the Washington Post:  I investigated the organization’s actions in Libya last year while at the same time working with the United Nations’ civilian protection office in Afghanistan.

MENASource

Jun 12, 2012

Egypt’s Constitutional Meltdown: Take 2

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

Just twenty-four hours after the passage of a new draft law meant to facilitate the formation of Egypt’s 100-member Constituent Assembly, liberals and leftists are accusing Islamists of monopolizing the constitution-writing process for a second time. The first attempt at forming a Constituent Assembly in March fell through after a walkout by non-Islamist and minority […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2012

Day of Russia or Day of the Kremlin?

By Julian Lindley-French

Today is the Day of Russia. It marks the moment in 1992 when the Declaration on Russian National Sovereignty was adopted by the Russian Parliament and Russia re-emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Back then there was much hope both in Russia and the rest of the free world that this enormous, great […]

Russia

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2012

Are the Financial Markets Really Europe’s Savior?

By Frederick Kempe

If the euro is saved, the much-maligned power of global financial markets will deserve much of the credit. The conventional wisdom among many on the intellectual left is that unbridled financial players threaten to destroy the European Union, one of history’s noblest, war-ending projects. The truth, however, is something else. To be sure, speculators lack […]

Economy & Business

MENASource

Jun 11, 2012

New Issue Brief: “Beyond the Ballot Box: Egypt’s Constitutional Challenge”

By Mara Revkin

All eyes are on the ballot box as Egypt prepares for the second round of the first post-Mubarak presidential election on June 16-17, a controversial run-off between the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP, the party founded by the Muslim Brotherhood) candidate Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak’s former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, two of the most […]

MENASource

Jun 11, 2012

Egypt’s Pivotal Ten Days

By Michele Dunne

It is no exaggeration to say that events over the next ten days will determine whether Egypt’s troubled transition is headed into calmer waters or into a vortex.  If all goes well, by June 21 Egypt will have a new president recognized as freely elected and a 100-member constituent assembly that will begin the long-delayed […]

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