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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

Feb 25, 2011

Gaddafi: Manic Depressive Megalomaniac

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

In the late 1970s, Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali couldn’t figure out why African summit meetings unanimously voted against Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. So he decided to sprinkle his delegation with intelligence gumshoes for the next summit in Sierra Leone in 1980. Their mission: Find out what kind of chicanery was going on behind […]

NATOSource

Feb 25, 2011

UK urges pressure on Gaddafi, EU weighs intervention

By Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 25, 2011

SecGen calls for emergency NATO meeting on Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  What is happening in Libya is of great concern to all of us. It’s a crisis in our immediate neighbourhood.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 25, 2011

Palin calls for NATO involvement in Libya

By Sarah Palin, Facebook

From Sarah Palin, Facebook:  It’s a little perplexing looking at the White House today.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Feb 24, 2011

U.S. Military Running PsyOps Against Congress? Probably Not.

By James Joyner

The Rolling Stone correspondent whose expose last July ended Stanley McChrystal’s career has identified "Another Runaway General." Or so he says.

NATOSource

Feb 24, 2011

NATO delays returning Turkish officers to face coup plot case

By Hurriyet

From Hurriyet:  Three Turkish officers stationed abroad will not return home to face trial for involvement in an alleged coup plot until NATO evaluates the matter or they stand down from their positions, according to reports.

NATOSource

Feb 24, 2011

Ukraine ready to introduce NATO standards

By Interfax-Ukraine

From Interfax-Ukraine:  Ukraine is ready to introduce NATO’s technological standards, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said. "Your standards suit us… We are ready to introduce them in our country," he said at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the press service of the Ukrainian government told Interfax-Ukraine. From Zik:  The Ukrainian premier […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Feb 24, 2011

Ukraine interested in joint missile defense system with NATO

By Interfax-Ukraine

From Interfax-Ukraine:  Ukraine is interested in joining the building of a common missile defense system with NATO, Anatoly Hrytsenko said, the head of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on national security and defense. "We are interested in participating in the building of a joint missile defense system and developing our technologies and creating new jobs through […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

Feb 24, 2011

U.S. officials deny military role in Libya

By Philip Ewing and Jen DiMascio, Morning Defense

From Philip Ewing and Jen DiMascio, Morning Defense:  There is no U.S. military role in Libya for now, officials across Washington said Wednesday.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Feb 24, 2011

Global Watercooler 2011-02-24

By Frederick Kempe

 Editor’s Note: Following are a few musings from the office of the Atlantic Council president about what globally minded Atlanticists will be buzzing about today.  This is a new feature that will appear regularly on our forthcoming THINKING GLOBAL blog. A Transatlantic Test in Libya Secure phone and internet lines have been burning up between […]

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