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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

May 6, 2011

Rasmussen: ”NATO will keep up military pressure while political efforts are stepped up”

By NATO

From NATO:  After the first meeting in Doha, the Contact group on Libya gathered today in Rome.

NATOSource

May 6, 2011

NATO “needs to get its act together”

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Unless NATO, including the United States, get more serious, Libya’s liberation war could turn into a prolonged, bloody stalemate.

United Kingdom

NATOSource

May 6, 2011

Mistral talks stumble over sensitive technology

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Talks between Russia and France on the purchase of Mistral class helicopter carriers have come to a dead end over Russia’s demands on the transfer and licensed production of sensitive electronics

NATOSource

May 6, 2011

France expels 14 Libyan diplomats

By Nick Vinocur, Reuters

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2011

Best Front Page Ever

By James Joyner

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs the above the Greatest Front Page Ever.

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2011

Atlantic Update 5/6/11

By Klee Aiken

Rough seas ahead for Russia’s attempts to procure Mistral class warships from France, as further disagreement over licensing and sensitive technology stall progress. Poland looks to emphasize European Union expansion in its upcoming stint as EU President, but with Icesave victims Great Britain and the Netherlands in the mix, including Iceland in its plans could […]

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

German media criticizes Obama and US for death of Osama bin Laden

By Charles Lane, the Washington Post

From Charles Lane, the Washington Post: [M]any of Obama’s erstwhile Euro-fans are feeling a twinge of buyer’s remorse.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2011

2011 Awards Dinner: You Had to Be There

By James Joyner

Atlantic Council awards dinners are filled with speeches from world leaders about weighty topics of global import. But what makes them so special is the personal interactions and the lighter moments, touching stories, and shared connections.

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2011

History Matters in War and Politics

By Harlan Ullman

This column was almost pre-empted by news of the daring “kill or capture” raid by U.S. Navy SEALs against Osama bin Laden. But, as the Raymond Davis case took time to resolve, the tough and obvious political and strategic answers to what Pakistan knew or did not know about the now deceased al-Qaida leader’s whereabouts […]

NATOSource

May 5, 2011

EU battlegroups wait for Libya operation “unlikely ever to be launched”

By Toby Vogel, the European Voice

European Union International Organizations
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