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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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New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2011

Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Fix?

By Harlan Ullman

“Too Big To Fail” is about the financial crisis that hit global banking institutions in the late summer of 2008 nearly bringing down the whole system. It is instructive and cautionary in a much wider application. Too many problems and institutions may be too big to fail. And, as a corollary, are they also paradoxically […]

NATOSource

Jun 8, 2011

NATO examines cyber threats at conference in Tallinn

By AFP

From AFP:  Three hundred global cyber experts gathered in Tallinn Tuesday for a NATO Cyber Conflict conference focused on the legal and political aspects of national and global Internet security amid a rise in attacks.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 8, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on June 7

By NATO

NATOSource

Jun 8, 2011

Cyber group Anonymous sends message to NATO: “You stand in our way”

By Circle of 13

From Circle of 13:  Good evening, NATO.  We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that a NATO draft report has classified Anonymous a potential "threat to member states’ security," and that you seek retaliation against us. It is true that Anonymous has committed what you would call ‘cyber-attacks’ in protest against several military […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 8, 2011

Russia Reset Gone Wild: European Arms Sales to Russia

By Ian Brzezinski, the New Atlanticist

From Ian Brzezinski, the New Atlanticist:  In 2009, Central European allies were left unnerved after Russia conducted its large-scale Zapad military exercise along their frontiers.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 7, 2011

Obama and Congress clash over giving away sensitive missile defense information to Russia

By R. James Woolsey and Rebeccah Heinrichs, Foreign Policy

From R. James Woolsey and Rebeccah Heinrichs, Foreign Policy:  President Barack Obama’s administration recently threatened to veto the defense budget

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 7, 2011

Obama and Merkel answers questions about Germany’s role in NATO and Libya Op

By the White House

From the White House:  Excerpts from remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in a Joint Press Conference

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2011

Russia Reset Gone Wild: European Arms Sales to Russia

By Ian Brzezinski

As NATO Ministers of Defense convene in Brussels on June 8 and 9th, they face a full plate. They will review the operations in Afghanistan and Libya. They will give thanks to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for his leadership, and they will address how the Alliance will sustain and exercise its capabilities in a […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2011

Gates to deliver provocative farewell speech to European allies

By Jorge Benitez

Beware Brussels; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is coming to “put a bit of stick about.” Gates is planning to deliver a major speech with critical language while he is in Europe this week for his final meeting with NATO Defense Ministers.

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2011

Netanyahu: Et Tu Brutus?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

When a joint session of the U.S. Congress gave Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu 29 standing ovations — four more than U.S. President Barack Obama received for his last State of the Union message — there was little doubt that Israel is an integral part of the American body politic. It was a hard-line speech […]

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