Atlantic Council blogs

Atlantic Council blogs provide short-form analyses from Council experts and a wider community of global voices on the world’s most important news stories.
View all
of our blogsSubscribe to our
newsletters

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.

Latest from across our blogs

New Atlanticist

Jun 15, 2011

NATO’s Half Pregnant Strategy

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

How serious is the split between the US and Europe over defense spending?

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Europe’s declining interest in paying for global security is becoming a serious anxiety for policymakers in Washington.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on June 14

By NATO

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Can Europe Afford Its Libya Campaign?

By Meera Selva and Danica Kirka, the AP

From Meera Selva and Danica Kirka, the AP:  "This has been a bit of a virility test for the French and the British to show they can do this by themselves, but they have been struggling, with munitions, equipment, everything," said Anand Menon

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Dead? Not Likely

By Lawrence S. Kaplan, the New York Times

From Lawrence S. Kaplan, the New York Times:  Burden sharing has been a problem for NATO since the beginning of the alliance.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: A Crisis of Ambition

By Alexis Crow, the New York Times

From Alexis Crow, the New York Times:  For the most part, American statesmen have tended to see NATO as a collective defense community built on Western values, ideally harboring the ability to carry out operations across the globe to secure these values — in essence, a "global NATO.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: We Need New Partners

By James Goldgeier, the New York Times

From James Goldgeier, the New York Times:  Europe will, however, have to do more for its own security as time goes on.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Europe’s Waning Influence

By Kori Schake, the New York Times

From Kori Schake, the New York Times: Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s speech was less a slap at Europeans to spend more (a case he has made consistently during his tenure) than a warning that their influence is waning.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Alliance of the Unwilling

By Josef Joffe, the New York Times

From Josef Joffe, the New York Times:  The French defense budget is 1.8 percent of G.D.P., the British is 2.2 percent — a long way from the 3 percent to 4 percent in the cold war.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 14, 2011

Exeunt Pakistan Experts, Pursued by Bear

By Shuja Nawaz

With apologies to Shakespeare’s for appropriating his memorable line from A Winter’s Tale, I worry about the state of Pakistan expertise that is fading from the scene in key Washington policy making positions.

Load More