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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

Feb 8, 2012

U.S. aims for Afghan talks breakthrough at NATO summit in May

By Missy Ryan and Warren Strobel, Reuters

From Missy Ryan and Warren Strobel, Reuters:  The United States is seeking to accelerate fragile talks with the Taliban so it can announce serious peace negotiations at a NATO summit in May, officials say, in what would be a welcome bright spot in Western efforts to end the war in Afghanistan. The Obama administration is […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 8, 2012

NATO Secretary General welcomes agreement on Baltic Air Policing

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I warmly welcome today’s decision by the North Atlantic Council to further authorize NATO Air Policing in the Baltic States with a continuous presence of fighters.

MENASource

Feb 8, 2012

Top News: Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Calls for Civil Disobedience Campaign

By Mara Revkin

Muslim Brotherhood secretary-general Mahmoud Hussein condemned calls for a general strike by workers and students on February 11, warning that such actions would threaten Egypt’s future.

New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2012

Turkey-US Relations: Dark Clouds on the Horizon

By Ross Wilson

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu comes to Washington this week with more positives in US-Turkish relations than at any time in years.  However, upcoming and potentially grave challenges – Syria, Iran, Egypt, and others – mean Turkey and US-Turkish ties will face many risky problems in the months ahead.

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2012

Italian PM Warns of European Disintegration From Mutual Resentments

By James Joyner

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti fears “backlash” stemming from “mutual resentments” between Northern and Southern Europeans spurred by the financial crisis.  Appearing on the PBS NewsHour, Monti declared, “I try to avoid that backlash by always presenting the necessary sacrifices that Italians have to go through not as an imposition from Brussels or Germany or […]

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2012

Afghanistan: End Game or No Game?

By Harlan Ullman

Last week was another roller coaster ride for international politics. Violence in Egypt; looming civil war in Syria; and threats and counter-threats over Iran’s nuclear intentions reverberated around the international security community intensifying the gathering sense of impending disaster. In Brussels at the NATO Defense Ministers’ meeting followed by the Munich Security Conference the next […]

Afghanistan NATO

MENASource

Feb 7, 2012

Egyptian Sovereignty: A Legitimate Concern or a Thin Veil for Repression?

By Tarek Radwan

US-Egyptian relations have suffered the worst blow since the Camp David Peace Accords were signed in 1979 due to the unrelenting position of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of International Cooperation to pursue the prosecution (or rather, persecution) of individuals working for foreign-funded NGOs in Egypt. Despite the Obama administration’s repeated warnings against […]

MENASource

Feb 7, 2012

Will US-Egypt Relations Rupture Over NGO Probe?

By Mara Revkin

A week before Valentine’s Day, the Egyptian government’s brazen antagonism of American-funded NGOs has proven the old adage: “You can’t buy love,” not even with the 1.3 billion in annual military aid that the United States has lavished on its military.

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Divisions within Obama administration growing over how to end Afghan war

By Karen DeYoung, the Washington Post

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Feb 7, 2012

Can Germany Summon the Will to Lead?

By John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vincour, the International Herald Tribune:  Mr. Putin’s goal is not only to paint an American-led enemy in time for next month’s vote, but to get the West to back off on Iran and on deployment of NATO’s missile shield in Europe through threats and by sowing the notion that America is shoving its […]

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