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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

Jan 26, 2011

Why I’m At Davos

By Frederick Kempe

Dateline Davos — The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting is as good a place as any to restart blogging, which I had abandoned four years ago when I left the Wall Street Journal  and my "Thinking Global" column to become president and  CEO of the Atlantic Council. Davos tries to capture the Zeitgeist each year […]

Georgia Russia Flags

New Atlanticist

Jan 25, 2011

Enduring Geopolitics: Russia’s 2008 Attack in Historical Perspective

By David Smith

 Ninety-one years ago this week, the British cabinet rejected a comprehensive plan to rally an anti-Bolshevik coalition, support White Russian forces, control the Baku-Batumi corridor and the Caspian Sea and, from that position of strength, negotiate with the nascent Soviet government.  The geopolitical effect of this decision was cession of the Eurasian heartland to the […]

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Jan 25, 2011

Atlantic Update 1/25/11

By James Joyner

Each weekday, Atlantic Update will highlight top news stories and columns vital to understanding the transatlantic space.

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2011

Moscow airport bomb: Medvedev calls for security shake-up

By the Telegraph

From the Telegraph:  Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has threatened sackings over security lapses he said had aided a deadly bombing at the country’s busiest airport.

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2011

Albanian prime minister warns of more violence

By Nick Squires, the Telegraph

From Nick Squires, the Telegraph:  Albania’s prime minister has thanked the army for heading off what he called an attempted coup last week, but warned that more violence is likely in the next few days. Three people were killed and more than 150 injured in the capital, Tirana, last Friday during violent clashes between tens […]

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2011

Norway hands over NATO Contact Point Embassy role to Turkey

By Allied Command Operations

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2011

China denies using US stealth fighter technology

By the AP/Guardian

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2011

Leaked NATO documents link Kosovo’s Prime Minister to organized crime

By Paul Lewis, the Guardian

New Atlanticist

Jan 24, 2011

Moscow Airport Terrorist Attack Kills 35

By James Joyner

As many as 35 are dead and 130 wounded after an explosion at Moscow’s  Domodedovo airport.  Terrorism is the working assumption.

New Atlanticist

Jan 24, 2011

Exploring ‘Turkishness’: women’s rights, entrepreneurship and ethno-religious identity

By Zeynep Dereli

The modern Turkish Republic was founded as a secular democracy. As we are approaching the centennial of the founding of the Republic we can see how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go.  We still face significant issues regarding human rights, particularly in relation to minorities and women. Turkey still struggles […]

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