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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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New Atlanticist

Jun 6, 2012

Anchoring the Alliance: A Stronger Germany

By R. Nicholas Burns Damon Wilson and Jeffrey Lightfoot

For NATO to succeed in the future, the Alliance needs a stronger Germany. One senior Alliance official labeled Germany a “lost nation” in its political and military leadership. Europe’s future relevance as a global strategic partner of the United States is contingent on Germany taking its full place as a much stronger political and military […]

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2012

Clinton on Georgia-US defense cooperation and NATO membership

By Hillary Clinton, Department of State

From Hillary Clinton, Department of State:  Reforming and modernizing Georgia’s defense establishment is also one of our shared priorities.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 6, 2012

Supporting Democracy

By Madeleine K Albright

America’s most valuable contribution to democracy is and always has been the successful implementation of freedom at home. If our country had grown up in despotism, the world would be a different and far bleaker place.

Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Jun 6, 2012

Top News: Supreme Court to Assess Disenfranchisement and Electoral Laws on June 14

By Tarek Radwan

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court will begin hearing the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission’s appeal regarding the Political Disenfranchisement Law on 14 June. If implemented, the law could result in the disqualification of Ahmed Shafik. The court will also hear an appeal by the Supreme Administrative Court challenging the constitutionality of the parliamentary elections law, which could […]

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2012

A New Shield Over Europe

By Ivo Daalder, the New York Times

From Ivo Daalder, the New York Times:  The alliance made many critical decisions in Chicago; one of the most important was the declaration of an interim NATO ballistic missile-defense capability

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 6, 2012

South Asian Meltdown?

By Harlan Ullman

Conditions in South Asia are chaotic, confused, critical and potentially catastrophic. Afghanistan, India and Pakistan are confronted with existential security, economic and political dangers that could overwhelm the capacity and limited resources of each state to address.

Pakistan

MENASource

Jun 6, 2012

Is Egypt’s Judiciary Leading the Counter-Revolution?

By Salem Mostafa Kamel and Mara Revkin

After waiting for more than a year and a half for the verdict in Hosni Mubarak’s trial, Egyptians are now frustrated with the outcome.  In a decision widely viewed as political—issued at a particularly volatile moment in the electoral process—Judge Ahmed Refaat sentenced the former president and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to 25 years […]

MENASource

Jun 6, 2012

Egypt’s Run-off Scenarios: A Risk Assessment

By Merit Al-Sayed

As time runs out for the two contenders in the run-off round, the race is getting increasingly competitive and desperate. The Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik are vying for the support of the 50 percent of voters who chose losing candidates in the first round. Shafik, eager […]

MENASource

Jun 6, 2012

Morsi Gambles on Victory Without Concessions

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

On June 1, liberal and leftist political forces released the final version of the "Document of the Pledge,” which they have presented to Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik in the hopes of obtaining commitments from the two candidates to advance the revolution’s objectives. Among the conditions included, the pledge would require the next president to: […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2012

In Spain, Germany Is Villain, Not Savior

By Frederick Kempe

What brought me to Spain during the most threatening week of the country’s recent history was an invitation to speak about one of Europe’s darkest hours a half-century ago, pegged to the Spanish-language publication of my book Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth.

Europe & Eurasia Germany
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