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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 11, 2012

Threats to Watch in 2012

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

On Dec. 18, 2010, a police slap of a vegetable-cum-fruit peddler in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid triggered an “Arab Spring” that no one had forecast and that quickly spawned a long, dark Arab winter. Before the end of January 2011, violent unrest had spread to Egypt. By Feb. 11, after 18 days of […]

Libya North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Interview: We Need to Encourage Research for Development

By Jason Harmala

Infosys’ Executive Co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan, a member of the Atlantic Council’s International Advisory Board, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra of Business Standard on the reasons behind instituting research awards and also about technologies that are expected to steer the IT industry forward.

NATOSource

Jan 10, 2012

EU defense spending still outstrips Russia and China combined, but little to show for it

By Peter Apps, Reuters

From Peter Apps, Reuters:  The European Union might appear a military superpower, at least on paper. It has more uniformed personnel than the United States and overall EU defense spending outstrips Russia or China. But as Washington pulls troops back from the continent, two decades after the Cold War ended, and refocuses on Asia, the […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 10, 2012

Hackers expose email addresses and passwords of 242 NATO officials

By Ed Pilkington and Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian

From Ed Pilkington and Richard Norton-Taylor, the Guardian:  Thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers, have been revealed on the internet following a security breach by hackers.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

MENASource

Jan 10, 2012

Despite New Restrictions on Military Aid, Administration Hopes to Give SCAF “Full Funding”

By Mara Revkin

Despite congressional backing for new restrictions on future military aid to Egypt — contingent on respect for human rights and progress toward a transfer of power to civilian leadership — the Obama administration is still hoping to allocate Egypt’s full $1.3 billion assistance package, according to Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman, who was interviewed […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Pakistan’s Memogate: Where’s the Beef?

By Harlan Ullman

The question ‘where’s the beef?’ has an almost iconic place in American culture.

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Beaufort: Why We Must Leave Afghanistan Now, Not End 2014

By Julian Lindley-French

Beaufort is a great film. It tells the story of a platoon of young Israeli soldiers at the turn of this century pointlessly asked to defend an isolated, old Crusader fort deep in Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon at the very end of a failed occupation.

Afghanistan

MENASource

Jan 10, 2012

Top News: Activists Divided on Timeline for Power Transfer to Civilians

By Mara Revkin

As the anniversary of the January 25 uprising approaches, activists and political figures are divided over two different proposals for a transfer of power to civilians. PROTESTS:  1) As the anniversary of the January 25 uprising approaches, activists and political figures are divided over two different proposals for a transfer of power to civilians. One […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

The War on Terror is Over

By Magnus Nordenman

Historians may look back at 2011 as the year that the war on terror finally ended. Counterterrorism was not removed from America’s security policy tool box but it no longer serves as a strategic priority and no longer guides how the US structures its relations with nations around the world or thinks and plans for […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

Current Woes Call for Smart Reinvention Not Destruction

By Lawrence Summers

It would have been almost unimaginable five years ago that the Financial Times would convene a series of articles on “Capitalism in Crisis”. That it has done so is a reflection both of sour public opinion and distressing results on the ground in much of the industrial world.

Economy & Business
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