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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

Aug 27, 2011

Gaddafi’s fall boosts Obama, but is Libya a model?

By Alister Bull, Reuters

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on August 26

By NATO

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2011

German foreign minister under fire for slighting NATO and Libyan opposition

By Natalia Drozdiak, Reuters

From Natalia Drozdiak, Reuters:  Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle faced ridicule across Germany and even within his own party Friday for stating that it was chiefly U.N.-imposed economic sanctions that led to the downfall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2011

The Jay-Z Doctrine? Coalition building in Hip Hop and NATO

By Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2011

NATO attacks pro-Gaddafi forces near Sirte

By Heba Saleh, the Financial Times

From Heba Saleh, the Financial Times:  Nato has launched air strikes against targets in the region around Sirte, the hometown of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi and a stronghold of loyalist forces

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2011

White House wants NATO partners to hunt for Gaddafi’s rockets and WMD

By Kimberly Dozier and Bradley Klapper, the AP

From Kimberly Dozier and Bradley Klapper, the AP:  It’s a polite faceoff of spies vs. diplomats, as the Obama administration debates how aggressively to pursue Libya’s vast weapons stores, including tons of caustic mustard agent and thousands of anti-aircraft rockets

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2011

Libya Exposes Transatlantic Contradictions

By James Joyner

As the Libya crisis has unfolded these last several months, some long-festering contradictions have come to light. First, for a variety of reasons, many of us opposed American intervention in the conflict. As horrible as the potential humanitarian crisis in Benghazi could have been, preventing it did not strike us as a vital national interest […]

Libya

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2011

With the Storming of Libya’s Bastille, the Arab Revolutions Begin a New Phase

By Michele Dunne

As Libyan rebel forces surged into Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound on August 23, the reverberations of their celebratory gunfire were felt far beyond Tripoli.

Libya

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2011

Libya and Africa: The reset

By J. Peter Pham

With most of the Libyan capital now falling under the control of forces aligned with Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), greater time and attention can now be devoted to pondering the many questions which have been pushed to one side when the outcome of the conflict was still uncertain. These issues include legitimate concerns about […]

NATO North Africa

NATOSource

Aug 26, 2011

Documents expose Gaddafi lobbying to influence NATO

By Stephen Mangan, the AP

From Stephen Mangan, the AP:  The Gaddafi government carried out a lobbying operation to try to stop NATO’s bombardment of Libya, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Friday, citing secret documents seen by the newspaper.

United States and Canada
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