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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

Sep 14, 2011

NATO balks at Libya nation-building, policing

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  NATO, which has been bogged down for nearly 10 years in Afghanistan and more than 12 in Kosovo, is desperately seeking a mission it can end, quickly, cleanly and for good.

NATOSource

Sep 14, 2011

Taliban and NATO in tweet battle

By Tim Mak, POLITCO

From Tim Mak, POLITCO:  As the Taliban’s attack on key buildings in Kabul was crushed after 20 hours of fighting, NATO-led forces engaged in a tweet tussle with a user that the UK’s Guardian has identified as a spokesperson for the insurgent group.

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

UK urges defense contractors to look overseas

By Keith Weir, Reuters

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

Rasmussen to appoint special envoy to open defense markets within NATO

By Keith Weir, Reuters

From Keith Weir, Reuters:  The United States and European countries should do more to open up their defence markets to competition at a time of tight budgets, the head of NATO said on Monday.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

NATO’s Finest Hour

By Ivo Daalder, the Wall Street Journal

From Ivo Daalder, the Wall Street Journal:  Yesterday we all remembered that day 10 years ago, when terrorists turned airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. But we should also remember what happened the following day.

New Atlanticist

Sep 13, 2011

U.S. Risks World-Leader Role

By Chuck Hagel

As the symbols of our nation’s economic and military strength (or prowess) came under attack 10 years ago today, my first thought: “This is the second Pearl Harbor.” As I told a reporter that day, “I don’t think I’m overstating it.”

New Atlanticist

Sep 13, 2011

Why Ten Years On Britain is Less Secure

By Julian Lindley-French

It has been a bruising decade for Britain. If on 10 September, 2001 an analyst had suggested that within months British forces would be fighting on the ground in Afghanistan, let alone in Iraq less than two years later credentials would have been questioned. 911 quite simply changed all the planning assumptions upon which British […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

Britain Balks at E.U. Defense Plan

By Stephen Castle, the International Herald Tribune

From Stephen Castle, the International Herald Tribune:  In addition to the European Union’s single currency and its passport-free travel zone, Britain now faces a new and unwelcome test of its engagement with Continental partners, this time over defense.

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NATOSource

Sep 13, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on September 12

By NATO

NATOSource

Sep 12, 2011

NATO Heads Toward the Nursing Home

By Elizabeth Pond, World Policy Journal

From Elizabeth Pond, World Policy Journal:  NATO won’t be dismantled. Instead, it will move to an old people’s home.

United States and Canada
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