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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 5, 2012

NGO Trial to Resume March 8

By Mara Revkin

Egypt has appointed new judges to hear the trial of 43 NGO employees, after six Americans among those charged left the country with nearly $5 million in bail posted.  The first hearing in the new trial is scheduled for March 8.

NATOSource

Mar 5, 2012

Germans concerned they have become “the Americans of Europe”

By Jan Fleischhauer, Spiegel

From Jan Fleischhauer, Spiegel:  It won’t be long before they start burning German flags.

Economy & Business United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 5, 2012

Russian elections: US and Europe must rethink the ‘reset’

By Kurt Volker, the Christian Science Monitor

From Kurt Volker, the Christian Science Monitor:  For the past several years, US and European policy has aimed largely at cooperating with the Russian government on key issues

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

Finland to buy Lockheed Martin cruise missiles

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Finland is set to buy Lockheed Martin cruise missiles for 178.5 million euros ($239 million), the country’s defence ministry said, part of the Nordic country’s efforts to boost its strike capability.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Mar 2, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood Reacts to Lifting of Travel Ban

By Mara Revkin

Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood reacted negatively to the Egyptian government’s decision to lift the travel ban on NGO employees. "The departure of the Americans who were initially banned from travelling is the most dangerous thing that happened after the revolution," FJP MP Akram El-Shaer said. El-Shaer said that the government refuses to explain […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2012

Why Wars Start and Why Wars Are Lost

By Harlan Ullman

As the White House defuses efforts to restart a 21st-century variant of the ancient Persian wars through a pre-emptive, presumptive Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, history offers several stark warnings and lessons about starting and losing wars to be ignored at our risk. After the 10-month-long Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in which the […]

Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

NATO’s Special Forces Network

By NATO

From NATO:  The skills and expertise of Special Forces are valuable assets to NATO operations. But whereas Special Forces are often seen as a national prerogative, the transatlantic Alliance also has a NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) where Special Forces work together.

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

NATO Secretary General outlines Smart Defense proposals

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  In Chicago, I expect us to put Smart Defence firmly into practice through a package of multinational projects addressing key capability areas.

MENASource

Mar 2, 2012

On Sharia, Civil Society, and Religious Identity in Egypt: A Response to Khaled Saad

By Kurt Werthmuller

On February 27th, Khaled Saad, an Egyptian legal consultant at the American Bar Association-Rule of Law Initiative in Egypt, insightfully argued here in EgyptSource that ”the most immediate threat to religious freedom, if one exists, lies not in amending Article 2 [of the current Egyptian constitution, which identifies Islamic law as the principal source of […]

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

Rasmussen: ‘In good times and bad, NATO has been the best investment Allies have made’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  We cannot tell how long this economic turmoil will last. But its consequences will be with us for a long time to come.

NATO Security & Defense
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