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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

Jan 20, 2010

NATO Eyes New Top Civilian Post in Kabul

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to create a new top civilian post in Kabul to flank its military chief in Afghanistan, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, and the British ambassador to Afghanistan [Mark Sedwill] is the leading contender, senior officials familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The announcement could be […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2010

Russian General to Take Part in NATO-Russia Council Meeting on Jan 26

By Interfax

From Interfax: Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is expected to take part in the NATO-Russia Council meeting in Brussels on January 26, Col. Alexei Kuznetsov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told Interfax on Wednesday. “Nikolai Makarov plans to take part in this meeting,” Kuznetsov said. This […]

NATOSource

Jan 20, 2010

France Likely to Sell Warship to Moscow

By the Washington Times

From the Washington Times: France is soon expected to become the first Western European NATO member to sell advanced military equipment to Russia, amid an aggressive search by Moscow for Western arms suppliers that has divided the country’s elite, diplomats and defense analysts say. The likely deal for at least one Mistral-class amphibious ship for […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2010

What to Do about Yemen?

By Don Snow

The revelations that the Ft. Hood massacre committed by US Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan and the Christmas underwear bombing attempt by Nigerian Umar Frouk Abdulmutallab may have been inspired by the rhetoric of an expatriate American living in Yemen (Anwar al-Maliki) placed that poor country on the southern end of the Arabian peninsula in […]

Yemen

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2010

More Than “Hearts and Minds” Needed to Counter Terrorism

By Harlan Ullman

The phrase “winning hearts and minds” is a simplistic and dangerous cliche reflecting a certain naivete in American thinking that everyone yearns to be like us.

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2010

Ukraine Election: A Yushchenko Post-Mortem

By Adrian Karatnycky

Orange Revolution hero Viktor Yushchenko has been rejected decisively by Ukraine’s voters in the January 17th vote. However, this repudiation should not prevent us from seeing some his enduring successes, even as we acknowledge his failings.

Ukraine

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

Transatlantic Homeland Security

By Global Europe

From Global Europe: If Europeans and Americans are to be safe at home, the United States need to boost its direct cooperation with EU institutions, and those institutions must take their new responsibilities seriously… Creating common standards in airline security or reaching a legal accord on data protection will be difficult, given our different legal […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

The Death of the West?

By the American Interest

From the American Interest: The biggest surprise, however, in the 2010s may be the breakup of the West. Just as the glue that once held the Third World is dissolving over time, the forces that once brought western Europe, the United States and Japan into a single economic and political bloc are gradually losing their […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

SAC Flies its First Humanitarian Relief Flight to Haiti

By NATO

From NATO: The Multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) conducted a humanitarian relief mission to Haiti on 16 January 2010 delivering first-aid kits and supplies to help Haiti, whose capital Port-au-Prince has been devastated in a massive earthquake. This the first humanitarian assistance flight by SAC’s operational arm, the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Pápa Air […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2010

Giving Futurism a Bad Name

By Robert Manning

When a major publisher publishes a book by an author whose book jacket describes him as “a renowned expert in geopolitics and forecasting,” one might be expected to take it seriously.  Indeed, George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century was dutifully reviewed by mainstream reviewers as such when Doubleday released […]

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