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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

Apr 7, 2011

NATO Renewed from Afghanistan

By Jan Techau

Anders Fogh Rasmussen has won the Afghan War. When he became Secretary General of NATO on the 1st of August, 2009, he took over an organization that was threatened by severe "Afghanistan depression." The Alliance appeared to be over extended. Neither the military mission nor the civil reconstruction projects were progressing, the Americans, Dutch and […]

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

Turkish military criticizes arrest of officers in coup trial

By DPA

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

7 NATO members sign agreement for military transport aircraft

By AFP

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

Canada adds personnel to NATO mission

By Jessia Murphy, the Toronto Sun

From Jessia Murphy, the Toronto Sun:  Canada has boosted the number of personnel involved in the NATO-led mission in Libya by nearly 200, the military said Wednesday.

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

Mart Laar becomes Estonia’s new Defense Minister

By the AP

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

French Special Forces deployed in Libya

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  French Special Forces units have been deployed in a remote desert area in south-western Libya, where they have allegedly carried out a raid against Al Qaeda militants or arms smugglers, the Algerian El Khabar newspaper said on Thursday. The newspaper quoted Algerian military sources as saying French unmanned aerial vehicles and warplanes […]

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2011

Rasmussen fails to persuade Turkey to close İzmir base

By Ercan Yavuz, Today’s Zaman

NATOSource

Apr 6, 2011

NATO: “No country is vetoing this target or that one, it’s not like Kosovo”

By Steven Erlanger, the New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, the New York Times:  Angry charges by Libyan rebels that NATO has failed to come to their aid point up a question that has haunted the Western air campaign from the start: how to avoid a stalemate and defeat the Libyan leader without putting foreign troops on the ground.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 6, 2011

France’s Role in Three Conflicts Displays a More Muscular Policy

By Steven Erlanger, the New York Times

From Steven Erlanger, the New York Times:  France on Tuesday found itself engaged in three shooting wars at once for the first time in memory, indicating a new muscularity in using power by the politically embattled French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Apr 6, 2011

What Next in Ivory Coast?

By Peter Pham

As the Ivory Coast’s former president, Laurent Gbagbo, stubbornly clings to power, his writ confined to a bunker under his house in the commercial capital of Abidjan and surrounded only by his combative wife Simone and a coterie of diehard supporters, the relevant questions are less about the fate of the besieged strongman than what […]

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