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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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New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2012

Worries Mount over Blowback of Israeli Attack on Iran

By Barbara Slavin

A former senior adviser on the Middle East to the last four US presidents says that “the negatives far outweigh the positives” of war with Iran and the United States should augment Israel’s nuclear weapons delivery systems to dissuade it from attacking the Islamic Republic. Bruce Riedel, who served on the White House National Security […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2012

Egyptian Style Democracy

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

U.S. democracy-building organizations — one Republican, one Democrat, both funded by the U.S. taxpayer — that have been telling Egyptians how to be good democrats, how to demonstrate peacefully and have truly free elections didn’t sit too well with the Egyptian military, which has ruled Egypt since 1952. The only real democracy Egyptians have known […]

North Africa

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

Turkey’s Ambassador ‘Disappointed and Concerned’ with Perry’s Remarks

By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN

From Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN:  "I am disappointed and concerned that Turkey and its time-tested ties of alliance, partnership and friendship with the United States became the object of misplaced and ill-advised criticism during last night’s Republican candidates’ debate. Needless to say, the Turkey described in the debate simply does not exist,"

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

Perry defends controversial comment on Turkey

By Ashley Killough, CNN Political Ticker

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2012

Why Britain Can Never Accept German Leadership

By Julian Lindley-French

Britain will never accept German leadership even though Germany will emerge from the economic crisis as Europe’s leading power. History is still far too close for that ever to happen. When I made that assertion in my in my blog of last week from the No Snow Meeting in Lithuania, with its heavy Churchillian overtones, […]

European Union Germany

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

Russia charges former Estonian spy chief in Arctic Sea hijacking

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Investigators in the northern Russian port of Arkhangelsk have charged in absentia Estonia’s former spy chief, Eerik-Niiles Kross, with organizing the hijacking of the cargo ship Arctic Sea in 2009, a spokesman for the regional Investigative Committee, Yury Shperling said on Friday.

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

A NATO Checklist for 2012

By  Tomas Teleky, atlantic-community.org

From Tomas Teleky, atlantic-community.org:  As the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago approaches, NATO has a full current agenda that includes both tackling new threats and learning from its recent major operations.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

The Perils of Europe’s Navel Gazing

By Ana Palacio, the New Atlanticist

From Ana Palacio, the New Atlanticist:  [T]heir overwhelming focus on the economics of the euro crisis is itself part of the problem because the crisis is, above all, a reflection of deep-seated weaknesses in European institutions and the fabric of European society.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2012

France and Turkey Compete for Middle East Influence

By Soner Cagaptay, the Bangkok Post

From Soner Cagaptay, the Bangkok Post:  As Egyptians and Tunisians vote to replace ousted despots and the Syrian government teeters on the brink, two old imperial powers are competing to exert their political influence over Arab countries in upheaval.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2012

Georgia warns against ‘offensive’ Russian exercise

By Democracy and Freedom Watch

From Democracy and Freedom Watch:  Russia’s South Strategic Command is planning the exercise ‘Caucasus 2012’ in September.

United States and Canada
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