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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

Mar 29, 2010

Russian Foreign Minister to Start Canada Tour with Arctic Talks

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend an Arctic Five ministerial meeting on Monday as part of his two-day visit to Canada. The agenda of his visit also includes a G8 foreign ministers meeting in Gatineau on March 30. The Arctic Five, which comprises Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway, […]

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2010

NATO Chief Calls on EU to Bring Turkey into Defense Body

By Zaman

From Zaman:  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on the European Union to bring Turkey into the bloc’s defense development arm and security structures. “Why doesn’t the EU grant such arrangement for Turkey?” Rasmussen said on Saturday, in a pointed demand for Ankara, which provides NATO with one its biggest armed forces, to join […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2010

Moscow Subway Bombing Puts Pressure on Putin

By James Joyner

Female suicide bombers have killed at least 38 and wounded many more in a terrorist attack on the Moscow subway this morning.  If, as all the circumstantial evidence currently points, this is the work of Chechen extremists, it will be a stern test for the Putin-Medvedev regime. Clifford Levy for NYT ("Subway Blasts Kill Dozens […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2010

Courting Pakistan: Forging a Strategic Partnership

By Shuja Nawaz

The United States and Pakistan is the world’s oddest couple, with an on-again, off-again friendship that has survived since the 1950s. Last week both sides completed a "strategic dialogue" in Washington amid fears that they were headed for another break-up.

New Atlanticist

Mar 26, 2010

Nuclear Treaty a New START

By James Joyner

The United States and Russia have agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals by a third.  This is not only good political theater but actually useful. UPI gives a useful overview of the agreement and rollout: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev announced agreement Friday on a nuclear arms reduction treaty. The […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 26, 2010

Afghanistan Success Measured in Convoys, Not Car Bombs

By Alexandros Petersen

On February 26, I woke up in Kabul to the sound of a suicide car bomb explosion two blocks away. I ate my full English breakfast amid cacophonous gunfire from the neighborhood park. The Taliban took responsibility for my wake-up call. It is these sorts of events that prompt analysts here to argue that despite […]

NATOSource

Mar 26, 2010

Poland’s Potential Nuclear Deterrence

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: Poland has capacities to build a nuclear bomb, in fact it has enough fuel to build about a dozen. Shocking? The country is not on the list of states with nuclear capacities such as the U.S. and Russia, which are busy negotiating a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. Still, the […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 26, 2010

Russia Will Only Buy Fully-Equipped Mistral from France – Gen. Makarov

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday that Russia would only buy a fully-equipped Mistral-class amphibious assault ship from France. Russia is negotiating the purchase of a Mistral-class ship from France, worth 400-500 million euros (around $540-$675 million). Russia could also use French technology later to build another three such […]

NATOSource

Mar 26, 2010

Russian Nuclear Bombers “Intercepted in British airspace”

By CNN

From CNN: Rare photos of Russian strategic bomber jets purportedly intercepted in British airspace show Moscow’s war machine is becoming increasingly bold, analysts said Thursday as Russia denied any territorial violations. Britain’s Ministry of Defence released images it said were taken earlier this month of two Russian Tu-160 bombers — known as Blackjacks by NATO […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Mar 26, 2010

NATO Urges Missile Defense Pact, Cites Iran Threat

By Reuters

From Reuters:  NATO states should agree at a summit this year to make missile defense systems against states including Iran an alliance mission and look at every opportunity to cooperate on this with Russia, the head of NATO says. In a speech prepared for delivery at a conference in Brussels Saturday, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh […]

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