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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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UK Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Mar 7, 2012

In Honour of Britain’s Afghan Fallen

By Julian Lindley-French

Today it was announced that six British soldiers serving in Afghanistan are missing presumed dead. Five of them were serving with The Yorkshire Regiment, my own county regiment, and the other with the Duke of Lancaster Regiment. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the fallen. They were part of a sustained […]

United Kingdom

MENASource

Mar 7, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood Close to Endorsing Presidential Candidate

By Mara Revkin

Sources close to the Brotherhood report that the group is likely to back either former Information Minister Mansour Hassan or Islamist candidate Mohamed Selim al-Awa for the presidency.

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

For first time in centuries, Asia’s military spending overtakes Europe

By Peter Apps, Reuters

From Peter Apps, Reuters:  Asian military spending will top that of Europe in 2012 for the first time in centuries, a global defence survey said on Wednesday, pointing to high regional economic growth and an increasingly ambitious China.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

Lawmakers criticize Air Force for mothballing $3.8 billion worth of UAVs

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

From Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters:  Lawmakers on Tuesday called top Air Force officials to task over recent acquisition missteps and raised concerns about their budget plans for fiscal 2013, which calls for cancellation of Northrop Grumann Corp’s unmanned Global Hawk plane.

Drones Technology & Innovation

MENASource

Mar 7, 2012

Parliament Divided Over Criteria for Constituent Assembly

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

Now that the dust has settled after Egypt’s months-long parliamentary elections, the country’s political forces are turning their attention to the next battleground: choosing the 100 members of the constituent assembly that will draft Egypt’s next constitution. But liberals and Islamists are far from reaching a consensus on criteria for membership in the committee, or […]

NATOSource

Mar 7, 2012

Turkey calls for ‘immediate opening’ of humanitarian corridors in Syria

By Emre Peker and Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg

From Emre Peker and Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg:  Turkey called for an “immediate opening” of humanitarian aid corridors in Syria as Russia rebuffed efforts to revive a United Nations Security Council condemnation of President Bashar al-Assad.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Mar 7, 2012

US-Egypt Tensions Cloud Prospects for Future Trade Cooperation

By Mehrunisa Qayyum

As the United States threatens to terminate military assistance to Egypt over the controversial indictment of American NGO employees, fears over the future of bilateral security cooperation have crowded out an equally urgent concern: the possibility that the current diplomatic crisis could derail US-Egypt economic ties and prospects for future trade partnerships. While US and […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 7, 2012

Bibi Bows to Reality

By Barbara Slavin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have concluded that Barack Obama will be re-elected in November and that Israel would jeopardize its ties with his administration if it attacks Iran before then. In public appearances Monday before and after a two-hour meeting with Obama in the Oval Office, Netanyahu stressed that U.S. and Israeli […]

Iran

NATOSource

Mar 6, 2012

Putin’s Return and NATO-Russia Relations: Back to the Future

By Jakub Kulhanek, the New Atlanticist

From Jakub Kulhanek, the New Atlanticist:  The NATO-Russia rapprochement reached its apex at the time of the NATO Lisbon Summit when both sides declared their readiness to build a joint missile defense in Europe.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 6, 2012

Onion Blarney

By Julian Lindley-French

Irish wit Oscar Wilde once said, “Before you call for one for one for the road, be sure you know the road”. Europe’s road has now been chosen. With last week’s signing of the European Fiscal Stability Treaty (or Treaty of Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union to give it the […]

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