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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

Mar 8, 2012

Egypt’s NGO Crisis: Political Theater Preventing Democratic Progress

By Ahmed Morsy

Hopes were high that the second session of the NGO trial, held on March 8, would yield a resolution to the worst crisis in US-Egypt relations since the 1967 war. Robert Becker, the only indicted American who did not choose to leave the country after the travel ban was lifted, said he stayed to stand […]

MENASource

Mar 8, 2012

Top News: Rising Calls for Cabinet Reshuffle

By Mara Revkin

Ahmed Fathi, head of the Brotherhood’s Shura Council, said Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri’s government is “weak and shaky” and increasingly vulnerable to calls for a cabinet reshuffle. “I believe the People’s Assembly is headed in the direction of withdrawal of confidence from this government, perhaps in the next few days,” Fathi said.

NATOSource

Mar 8, 2012

Britain concerned about Obama’s pivot away from Europe

By Andrew Chuter, Defense News

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 8, 2012

Gul: ‘Turkey is against the intervention by any force which is from outside the region’

By Lin Noueihed, Reuters

NATOSource

Mar 8, 2012

China testing cyber-attack capabilities, report says

By Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post:  For a decade or more, Chinese military officials have talked about conducting warfare in cyberspace, but in recent years they have progressed to testing attack capabilities during exercises

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

Obama explains moving G-8 to Camp David

By Lynn Sweet, the Chicago Sun-Times

From Lynn Sweet, the Chicago Sun-Times:  Obama said the summit was moved because he wanted to use the Camp David retreat to huddle informally with foreign leaders, and the idea to do so did not occur to anyone until after Chicago was booked.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

Moscow Wants Missile Defense Talks at NATO Summit

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The Russian president is unlikely to attend a NATO summit in Chicago if the missile defense issue is not on its agenda, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 7, 2012

Why Wars Are Won

By Harlan Ullman

Last week’s column explored the questions of why wars start and why wars are lost. Flawed assumptions, miscalculations and misperceptions, ideologically driven assertions and the failure to examine potential consequences are among the better explanations.

New Atlanticist

Mar 7, 2012

Europeans’ Dilemma and Putin’s Pledge

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

From the three “tenets” of Lord Ismay – NATO has been created to keep the Americans in, the Germans down and the Russians out – the most important one has proven to be the first: to keep the Americans in!

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

Obama mulls giving Moscow data on missile defense

By Jim Wolf, Reuters

From Jim Wolf, Reuters:  The Obama administration disclosed on Tuesday that it is considering sharing some classified U.S. data as part of an effort to allay Russian concerns about a controversial antimissile shield.

United States and Canada
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