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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

Apr 1, 2011

Defense shuffle: U.S. set to name new military commanders

By Laura Rozen, the Envoy

From Laura Rozen, the Envoy:  David Petraeus, perhaps the most celebrated American general of his generation, is likely to leave his job as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan this summer, multiple defense officials say.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2011

Chancellor Merkel’s Shellacking

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Even after pandering to voters’ fears about nuclear power, the euro and NATO operations in Libya, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany got a shellacking in her Christian Democratic party’s traditional bastion of Baden-Württemberg.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2011

Europe Had Better Wake Up

By Lord Robertson

I support the Government in what they are doing, through NATO, in Libya. There is absolutely no doubt that, had timely action not been taken, Benghazi and eastern Libya would have fallen, and the consequences for the civilian population in that area would have been grim indeed. Our forces in the air, at sea and […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2011

Fighting to the Last American?: America and the End of the European Age

By Julian Lindley-French

The European age is finally over! Five hundred years after it began with the Spanish conquest of Latin America the Libya imbroglio marks the final end of Europe’s strategic pretence. For all the rhetoric from Paris and London and the belated ‘leadership’ of NATO Europeans clearly lack the strategic imagination, political ambition and basic military means to […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2011

Hope and Change Won’t Work in Libya

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

President Obama ran his hugely successful 2008 election campaign on the themes of hope and change. Unfortunately, he is also running the Libya war based on the same themes with far less success. The coalition strategy is to hope that escalating airstrikes will fracture Colonel Gaddafi’s inner circle and give the ragtag group of rebels […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2011

Libya Mission Creep: What If Gaddafi Doesn’t Fall Soon?

By James Joyner

Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum says he backed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton because he had greater faith in the former’s judgment, especially on the matter of kinetic interventions. Alas, that confidence is being sorely tested. Obama has been a disappointment on civil liberties and national security issues, but since I frankly don’t think any modern […]

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2011

NATO in Libya, Memories of Kosovo

By Sean Kay, the Washington Note

From Sean Kay, the Washington Note:  The Kosovo war is the best case in point to think about relative to the current crisis in Libya.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2011

NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Civilians

By Thom Shanker and Charlie Savage, the New York Times

From Thom Shanker and Charlie Savage, the New York Times:  Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2011

NATO After Libya

By Stanley Sloan

NATO has been given an important role in the campaign against Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. However, this important task will not likely settle the on-going debate about NATO’s future. It has become popular in recent years for academics and commentators to question the validity of the NATO commitment for the United States and Canada […]

NATOSource

Mar 31, 2011

Bulgaria sending frigate to join NATO Operation Unified Protector

By the Sofia Echo

From the Sofia Echo:  Bulgaria will join the international military operation against the Gaddafi regime in Libya with the deployment of the frigate Druzki (Daring), the Cabinet decided on March 30, television channel bTV said.

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