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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 20, 2011

Obama’s Mid-Term Report Card

By James Joyner

Today marks the second anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as president and, thus, the halfway mark of his term.   How’s he doing so far? The easy answer is to give him an Incomplete.  After all, it takes a long time to see the results of policy changes.  Nonetheless, based on what we know so […]

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2011

UK-Nordic-Baltic Summit to develop “alliance of common interests”

By George Parker and Andrew Ward, the Financial Times

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2011

Hungary’s Media Law Draws EU Protests

By James Joyner

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council.   Spiegel: Orbán began his speech to the European Parliament at 10:36 a.m. on Wednesday morning. He had hardly had time to greet the assembled deputies before being interrupted by […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2011

Framing NATO’s Engagement with China

By Walter L. Christman, Atlantic-Community.org

From Walter L. Christman, Atlantic-Community.org:  While transatlantic cooperation, through organizations such as NATO, is the most robust on the planet, it is nevertheless limited in its ability to address the complex and multiplying challenges springing up around the globe

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2011

Belarus lashes out over EU Sanctions

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered the government to respond to the European Parliament’s sanctions against him and scores of other officials. "If anybody attempts to impose economic or any other sanctions against the country, we should respond and prepare counter-measures," Lukashenko told a government meeting. … Earlier on Thursday, the […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2011

China’s Seat At The Big Table

By James Joyner

A great line was going around Twitter last night:  "The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner holds a State Dinner for a man who has the 2010 winner under House Arrest." And, indeed, there was some amusing irony in President Obama, the 2009 winner, hosting Chinese President Hu Jintao for a massive state dinner.  Among his […]

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2011

Rasmussen: European missile defense needs independent Russian and NATO systems

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  NATO’s vision for European missile defense is two independent, but coordinated systems, the alliance’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Wednesday.

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2011

Nordic Alliance: Mini-NATO or Polar Fog?

By Andrew Rettman, the EUobserver

From Andrew Rettman, the EUobserver:  Proposals for the five Nordic countries to create a mini-Nato alliance are "dreams in Polar fog" but may be useful for "keeping an eye on Polar bears and Russians", according to the former US ambassador to Norway, Benson Whitney.

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NATOSource

Jan 19, 2011

Obama Administration’s Cyber Report Card

By the National Security Cyberspace Institute

From the National Security Cyberspace Institute:  We’ve awarded decidedly mixed grades to President Obama at the halfway point of his term.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2011

America Has No Strategy

By Harlan Ullman

Despite America’s penchant for lauding its “exceptionalism,” regarding “strategic thinking,” this exceptionalism applies to getting that thinking right. Too often, we get it wrong or allow it to be absent without leave. Over the past century, our record has been poor. We won World War I yet, in the aftermath, we helped sow the seeds […]

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