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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

Nov 1, 2011

Istanbul: The Search for Consensus

By Maleeha Lodhi

An orderly ‘transition’ in 2014, when American and Nato combat forces pull out from Afghanistan, rests on progress towards a negotiated political settlement. But a serious peace process to advance Afghan national ‘reconciliation’ has yet to get off the ground. That is why a regional conference that will convene in Istanbul on November 2 will […]

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MENASource

Oct 31, 2011

News Update: October 31, 2011

By Mara Revkin

Non-commissioned police officers agreed to end their sit-in in front of the Interior Ministry peacefully, according to a security source, after Minister of Interior Mansour El-Essawy met with representatives of the protesters and promised to meet their demands for fair promotions, better healthcare, a shorter work day, higher wages, and the “cleansing” of the ministry […]

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2011

America’s new Middle East ‘mini-Nato’

By Simon Tisdall, the Guardian

From Simon Tisdall, the Guardian:  Barack Obama put a positive spin on this month’s announcement confirming all American troops would leave Iraq by year’s end. But there is no disguising Washington’s anxiety about the future direction of events both there and in neighbouring Syria.

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2011

Secretary General rules out NATO intervention in Syria

By Reuters

From Reuters:   NATO ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria Monday but said Damascus should draw lessons from Libya, where NATO-backed rebels won a civil war that resulted in the killing of long-serving leader Muammar Gaddafi.

NATOSource

Oct 31, 2011

Hillary’s War: Clinton credited with key role in success of NATO airstrikes, Libyan rebels

By Joby Warrick, the Washington Post

From Joby Warrick, the Washington Post:   At 5:45 p.m. on March 19, three hours before the official start of the air campaign over Libya, four French Rafale jet fighters streaked across the Mediterranean coastline to attack a column of tanks heading toward the rebel city of Benghazi.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2011

Italian Given Worst Job in Europe

By Ben Carliner

The Onion famously announced the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008 with the headline: Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job. The Onion noted that the position “comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it.”

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NATOSource

Oct 31, 2011

Secretary General visits Tripoli on final day of NATO’s operation in Libya

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  NATO’s top official on Monday praised the alliance’s 7-month sea and air campaign in Libya — a key in ousting longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi — saying the mission’s end Monday marks the close of a “successful chapter in NATO’s history.”

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2011

Israel: A True Ally in the Middle East

By Robert D. Blackwill and Walter B. Slocombe

American leaders have traditionally explained the foundations of the U.S.-Israel relationship by citing shared democratic values and the moral responsibility America bears to protect the small nation-state of the Jewish people. Although accurate and essential, this characterization is incomplete because it fails to capture a third, crucial aspect: the many ways in which Israel advances […]

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New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2011

NTM-A and the Afghan National Security Force: Two Year Review

By William B. Caldwell IV

For two years, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) has partnered with the Government of Afghanistan to develop the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF). NATO leadership had the vision in 2009 to establish NTM-A to assume lead for the development of the ANSF. When they did so in November 2009 they provided it with the right strategy, […]

Afghanistan

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2011

NATO’s Success in Libya

By Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, the International Herald Tribune

From Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, the International Herald Tribune:  Monday, Oct. 31st, seven months after it started, NATO’s operation in Libya will come to an end.

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