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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 1, 2011

Praising NATO, and France’s Place in It

By Steven Erlanger, the New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, the New York Times:  On the eve of a major conference here to try to consolidate international support and reconstruction aid for Libya’s fledgling government, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France praised the working of the NATO alliance in support of the rebels

NATOSource

Sep 1, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 31

By NATO

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2011

U.S. and European Defense Cuts: A Race to the Bottom

By Tomas Valasek, the Center for European Reform

From Tomas Valasek, the Center for European Reform:  Even before the latest cuts, in April 2011, the Obama administration ordered the withdrawal of one of the four remaining US brigade combat teams (BCTs) from Europe.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2011

How NATO is Perceived in Russia (or Lessons in Optimism)

By Robert Pszczel, the New Atlanticist

From Robert Pszczel, the New Atlanticist:  Exhibit one – the Levada Center opinion poll conducted in January 2011 showed NATO being described as an adversary by 23 percent of Russians (Chechen rebels came first on that list with 43 percent, followed by USA with 28 percent).

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 31, 2011

How NATO is Perceived in Russia (or Lessons in Optimism)

By Robert Pszczel

Let us start with a few snapshots. Exhibit one – the Levada Center opinion poll conducted in January 2011 showed NATO being described as an adversary by 23 percent of Russians (Chechen rebels came first on that list with 43 percent, followed by USA with 28 percent).

NATO Russia

New Atlanticist

Aug 31, 2011

The Worst Journey in the World

By Julian Lindley-French

Seventy years ago this day the first Arctic Convoy set off from Scotland en route to Murmansk in Northern Russia. Between August 1941 and May 1945, 78 convoys comprising some 1400 merchant ships completed what Winston Churchill called, “the worst journey in the world” to deliver vital war supplies to Soviet Russia under a lend-lease […]

United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Aug 31, 2011

Lead Britannia!

By Harlan Ullman

August, not April, is the cruelest month. In the 20th century, two world wars were started. America’s long and tragic engagement in Vietnam and Saddam Hussein’s ill-fated incursion into Kuwait were conceived in August. If this August’s events — from Afghanistan and the Middle East to economic roller coasters, riots in Britain and hurricanes in […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2011

America’s Secret Libya War

By John Barry, the Daily Beast

From John Barry, the Daily Beast:  Officially, President Obama handed the lead role of ousting Muammar Gaddafi to the European members of NATO.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2011

NATO May Maintain Libya No-Fly Zone After War Ends

By AFP

From AFP:  Any role for NATO in Libya after hostilities there end would depend on requests from the United Nations, the officials stressed, noting that the alliance wants the UN to take the lead in post-conflict management.

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2011

Defence: Lessons from Libya

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  “Libya came out all right in the end,” says Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to Nato. “But if we come to a quick judgment that this mission was a Nato success story, and don’t have a serious discussion of its strengths and weaknesses, we will never get to […]

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