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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 19, 2012

The Republican Party’s Multiple Circular Firing Squads

By Harlan Ullman

On the current trajectory (and assuming that no untoward events change the calculus before November), Barack Obama seems well on his way to winning a second term in the White House. Of the reasons for this prediction, three stand out: Republicans, Republicans and still more Republicans. With uncanny precision, the Republican Party and its membership, […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2012

Expect the Best Behavior from Our Troops

By Kurt Sanger

The video showing Marines urinating on dead enemy bodies in Afghanistan has refocused America’s attention on the behavior of service members. We have been painfully aware of the strategic implications of this kind of action since we saw the photos from Abu Ghraib. How could something like this happen now? Something is broken. We remember […]

Afghanistan

MENASource

Jan 19, 2012

Top News: ElBaradei Campaign Rejects “Fake Celebrations” on Jan. 25

By Mara Revkin

The Popular Campaign to Support Mohamed ElBaradei issued a statement rejecting "fake celebrations" being planned for the anniversary of the outbreak of the 25 January revolution, in the group’s first official statement since ElBaradei’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race.

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2012

US Ambassador to NATO: ‘ European commitments to NATO are too-often lacking’

By Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO

From Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO:  [W]hile Europeans don’t spend enough on defense, they also don’t spend efficiently.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2012

On Iran, Emulate TR

By R. James Woolsey and Robert MacFarlane

In the first week of 2012, President Obama finally approved tough sanctions on Iran’s central bank, aiming to cripple Iran’s oil trade and thwart its advanced efforts to possess a nuclear weapon. Iran’s armed-forces commander, Gen. Ataollah Salehi, threatened military action against the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier operating in international waters: “We […]

Iran

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2012

Turkey’s Foreign Minister: ‘Today, we need NATO… even more than in 1952’

By Ahmet Davutoglu, NATO

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2012

Secretary General Rasmussen: ‘Turkey makes NATO stronger and NATO makes Turkey stronger’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  In just one month’s time, on the 18th of February, we will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Turkey and Greece joining NATO. For six decades, Minister, Turkey has been a pillar of our security. And NATO has been a pillar of your security.

SouthAsiaSource

Jan 19, 2012

South Asia Predictions for 2012

By South Asia Center

The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”

MENASource

Jan 19, 2012

Egypt’s Supreme Court Ruling on the Presidential Election Law: Road Block or Minor Speed Bump for the Military?

By Nathan Brown and Mara Revkin

Egypt’s route to political transition over the past year has been bumpy, confusing, and thus far guided by the roadmap laid out by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in the interim constitution it unilaterally declared on March 30 of last year. But on January 18, the generals leading the country seem to […]

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2012

British and French troops train together in France

By Defpro

From Defpro:  The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS), have recently been training in France with the French Army’s 152nd Infantry Regiment. 

United Kingdom
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