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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

Jul 1, 2009

Rumors of War in Georgia

By David Smith

Russia Monday launched Kavkaz 2009—the largest ever military exercise in the North Caucasus—possibly the prelude to another assault on Georgia.  Meanwhile, rumors of war loom like thunderheads on a hot summer evening.

The Caucasus
People enter a government job centre in Madrid June 2, 2009.

New Atlanticist

Jul 1, 2009

U.S.-EU Unemployment Reaching a Boiling Point?

By Demis Mavrellis

Despite encouraging signs of an uptick in the global economy, unemployment remains an outstanding challenge to both U.S. and EU policy-makers.

NATOSource

Jun 30, 2009

Outgoing NATO Commander Slams European Role In Afghanistan

By AFP

From AFP: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s outgoing top commander, General John Craddock, had a few parting shots for Europe as he formally handed over his post Tuesday, criticizing the continent’s engagement in Afghanistan.In an interview to be published Wednesday in Germany’s Stuttgarter Zeitung, the U.S. general said European leaders often used critical public opinion […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 30, 2009

EU and Turkey: still talking membership, barely

By AP

The Turkish government appears more interested in using talks with the EU to resolve Cyprus, than advancing membership. While any progress on Cyprus is desirable, does the switch in priorities from EU membership reveal a discreet, yet nonetheless decisive, realignment of Turkey’s foreign policy and abandonment of Mustafa Kemal’s legacy by Erodgan, Davutoglu, and the […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 30, 2009

For a Post in Europe, a Renaissance Admiral

By the New York Times

  From the New York Times: Now Admiral Stavridis’s boss, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, has given him a new assignment, which starts Tuesday. “Jim must also learn to speak NATO,” Mr. Gates said. As the new American and NATO commander in Europe, Admiral Stavridis, 54, becomes the first naval officer appointed to a position […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2009

German Court Upholds but Delays Lisbon Treaty

By James Joyner

“Germany’s highest court has ruled that the Lisbon Treaty is not fundamentally incompatible with the country’s constitution. However, it has called a halt to the ratification process until the German parliament changes a domestic law to strengthen the role of the country’s legislative bodies in implementing European Union laws.” 

European Union Germany

New Atlanticist

Jun 30, 2009

Weak States and National Strategy

By Derek Reveron

Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace released the annual failed states index to categorize economic, political, and social stability of the world’s countries. Unsurprisingly, topping the list of most stable and sustainable countries are the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

NATOSource

Jun 29, 2009

NATO and Russia resume military ties

By AP

From AP: Despite last year’s disruption of ties with NATO, Russia has continued cooperating with individual NATO nations such as the U.S., France or Germany by allowing them to use Russia’s rail network and aerial corridors to resupply international forces in Afghanistan, and its navy has worked with NATO warships on their joint anti-piracy patrols. […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 29, 2009

Russia starts large-scale war games, Georgia fumes

By Reuters

From Reuters: Similar Russian exercises in the same region last August allowed Moscow to send troops and tanks into Georgia quickly to repel government troops who tried to retake South Ossetia. The brief war raised fears in the West over security of gas transit routes from the Caspian Sea to western Europe. The manoeuvres will […]

NATOSource

Jun 29, 2009

NATOSource: Bigger fish to fry than Georgia

By NATO

From NATO: [Excerpt of press conference by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer after the NATO-Russia Council meeting in Corfu, Greece, 6/27/09] On substance, as I said, we restarted our relations at a political level. We also agreed to restart the military-to-military contacts which, as you know, had been frozen since last August. And […]

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