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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

Apr 18, 2012

Clinton warns Assad regime not to squander last chance to avoid ‘additional measures’

Although not on the official agenda of today’s meeting of NATO Foreign and Defense ministers, the continuing violence in Syria forced NATO leaders to discuss the issue and its impact on the alliance.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Apr 18, 2012

The Kabul Blame Game

By Derek Reveron

Last weekend’s attacks in Afghanistan demonstrates that the Haqqani Network remains committed to conducting attacks, Afghan security forces are effective, and blame game politics are alive and well. Consider President Karzai’s statement: “The fact terrorists were able to enter Kabul and other provinces was an intelligence failure for us and especially for NATO.” In retort, […]

Afghanistan NATO

MENASource

Apr 18, 2012

Top News: SPEC Rejects Appeal for Ten Disqualified Candidates

By Mara Revkin

Egypt’s Supreme Presidential Election Commission (SPEC) announced on April 17 its final decision to disqualify ten candidates from the presidential race, including the Salafi candidate Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Leader Khairat El-Shater and Mubarak’s former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.

MENASource

Apr 18, 2012

Egypt’s Constitution: The Crisis and a Proposed Exit / دستور مصر: الأزمة و رؤية للخروج منها

By Yussef Auf

Deep political contention has emerged over the creation of the Constituent Assembly — charged with drafting Egypt’s post-revolutionary constitution —  revealing with great clarity the many shortcomings of the transitional administration which has been in power since February 12, 2011. On the one hand, it has become evident to everyone at this point that the […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 18, 2012

Memo to NATO: Stay Out of Syrian Conflict

By Joshua Foust

Despite this weekend’s unanimous UN Security Council vote, which authorized a team of observers to Syria to monitor the tentative ceasefire there, there remain many questions about what can actually be done to stop the fighting. Conventional wisdom, prior to Saturday, seemed to resign the international community to doing very little about the bloodshed, thanks to […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 18, 2012

A Presidential Challenge

By Harlan Ullman

With the emergence of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as the presumptive Republican nominee, the presidential campaign should enter a serious phase given the gravitas of the issues. Yet the sorry state of American politics means that the chances of a meaningful debate over these difficult and indeed potentially intractable issues confronting the nation aren’t […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Apr 17, 2012

Australia joins race for the exit from Afghanistan

By Elise Labott, CNN Security Clearance

NATOSource

Apr 17, 2012

Cheapening NATO’s Security Promise Weakens It

By James Joyner, the New Atlanticist

From James Joyner, the New Atlanticist:  After an incident last week in which two Syrians were killed by Assad regime forces while attempting to flee to safety in Turkey

MENASource

Apr 17, 2012

Will the SCAF Use the Constitutional Crisis as Pretext for a Power Grab?

By Mara Revkin

Perhaps the only way to explain the haphazard and self-destructive pattern of the SCAF’s decision-making over the past year is political amnesia: Having apparently forgotten the uproar over the military’s first attempt to influence the constitutional process, the SCAF is now on the verge of repeating one of its most dangerous mistakes. As the 100-member […]

MENASource

Apr 17, 2012

Top News: Military Pushes for Constitution Before Presidential Election

By Mara Revkin

Former presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the SCAF’s insistence on drafting a new constitution before the presidential election and said he plans to establish new political party.

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