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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

Jun 28, 2011

Pawlenty: ‘Now is not the time to retreat’

By Marc Thiessen, the Washington Post

From Marc Thiessen, the Washington Post:  This morning, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty sought to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan, delivering a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations that vigorously endorsed a freedom-centered foreign policy for the Republican Party.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

Counterpoint: In Defense of NATO

By Stanley Sloan

From Stanley R. Sloan, the International Herald Tribune:  The American response to the Gates speech has been impressive, across the political spectrum. Everyone knows that the alliance is by no means a perfect arrangement.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

NATO begins surge operations in Eastern Med

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) has begun surge operations in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of Operation Active Endeavour. SNMG2 flagship Turkish frigate TCG Orucreis and Greek frigate HS Kanaris recently finished their first work up for operations and are now working intensely in deterrent surge operations for a […]

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on June 27

By NATO

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

U.S. foreign policy: War fever subsides

By Andrew J. Bacevich, the Los Angeles Times

From Andrew J. Bacevich, the Los Angeles Times:  At periodic intervals, the American body politic has shown a marked susceptibility to messianic fevers.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

Officer Who Exposed Russian Spies Is Sentenced in Absentia

By Michael Schwirtz, the New York Times

From Michael Schwirtz, the New York Times:  A Moscow court sentenced a former Russian intelligence officer in absentia to 25 years in prison on Monday for leaking information that led to the exposure last summer of a Russian spy ring in the United States.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2011

June 28 in Transatlantic History

By the AP

From the AP:  On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – the event which sparked World War I. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 28, 2011

Afghanistan Handoff: NATO to SCO?

By Nikolas Gvosdev

While the United States and its North Atlantic partners have reaffirmed their commitment to Afghanistan through to 2014, the Western alliance has also clearly signaled it is not willing to offer an unlimited “blank check” to Kabul. The president’s approach to Afghanistan is guided by what I’ve described as the “just enough” doctrine designed to “keep al-Qaida […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Jun 28, 2011

At the Going Down of the Afghan Sun

By Julian Lindley-French

Baden, Austria. Here in this beautiful spa town that adorns the southern rim of Vienna azaleas, petunias and rose cascade and tumble down manicured hills of bloom onto green swards that guard deep and soulful pools of reflective water. My friend and colleague Dr Franco Algieri of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Studies […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 28, 2011

Could Elections be Democratic in Ukraine without Tymoshenko?

By Taras Kuzio

Speaking to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on June 21, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych defended the criminal cases launched against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and twelve ministers from her 2007-2010 government. Together with nine leaders of the fall 2010 anti-tax code protests and ten nationalists who admitted to beheading the […]

Ukraine
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