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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 17, 2010

Reorganization to Place Most U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Under NATO Command

By the AP

From the AP:  A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. and NATO commander in the theater… Vice Adm. Greg Smith, the top military spokesman in Afghanistan, said the reorganization would integrate most of the 20,000 […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2010

NATO Tensions No Cause for Alarm

By atlantic-community.org

From atlantic-community.org:  NATO has been threatened throughout its existence by diverging interests of its members – or to be precise, by the lack of trust in the solidarity of its members in the light of these diverging interests. The persistent mistrust of some European members concerning the willingness of the United States to risk their […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 17, 2010

Is the United States a Serious Nation?

By Harlan Ullman

To many, THE issue confronting the United States is a government that is dysfunctional and even badly broken. To others, the immense and swelling fiscal debt and deficits must redressed before the nation slips into bankruptcy. Still others argue that values are the centerpiece of America and unless differences over guns, gays, gestation periods and […]

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Duma Will Not Ratify Arms Treaty if Link to Missile Defense Omitted – Gryzlov

By Interfax

From Interfax:  Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said the Duma would not ratify the new strategic arms treaty with the United States if it does not seal the link with missile defense. "State Duma deputies participate in the drafting of the START-II treaty. We will not ratify it, if it does not take into […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

U.S. Decision on Modernization of Nuclear Weapons Impacts Arsenal in Europe

By Spiegel

From Spiegel:  Germany’s foreign minister has called for the removal of Cold War legacy nuclear weapons being stored here, but some in Washington may have other plans. The US Department of Energy is requesting a budget of close to $2 billion to modernize the country’s oldest models of nuclear weapons, including those being kept in […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

NATO Transformation on the Cheap

By James Joyner

General Stéphane Abrial, Commander Allied Command Transformation (ACT), declared that, "With defense budgets under growing competition from other lines of public expenditure it is therefore imperative that we are able to assure our publics that we are wasting nothing, that we have not spared ourselves any necessary reform and ask for nothing that is not […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2010

Ukraine’s Success Story

By Edward Lucas

The British journalist Edward Lucas speaks on the need for Ukraine to choose between the Russian dictatorships of the law and the European rule of law.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Opposition Leader Seeks Clarification on Sweden’s NATO Ties

By the Local

From the Local:  Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has demanded clarification from the government over Sweden‘s relationship to the NATO military alliance. In an open letter to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreing Minister Carl Bildt, Sahlin claimed that "key ministers within the government are pushing different positions on Swedish cooperation with NATO." Sahlin, together […]

NATOSource

Mar 16, 2010

Military Cooperation Workshop for NATO Partners

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  NATO partner nations will be taking part in the 2010 Military Cooperation Coordination Workshop in Prague from March 22-25. This is the second workshop to be led by the Military Cooperation Division, with the goal of giving partner nation representatives an opportunity to provide direct input to the development of 2011 work plans and […]

NATOSource

Mar 15, 2010

Germany Doubles Arms Exports

By Deutche Welle

From Deutche Welle:  Germany doubled the amount of its arms it sold abroad in 2004-2009, compared to that exported during the previous five-year period, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday. Germany is the world’s third leading exporter of conventional weaponry. Most of the German exports were armored […]

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