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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

Jun 29, 2009

Iraq Victory Achieved with Handover?

By Chris Dierkes

Tomorrow is the deadline for the exit of US Forces from the cities in Iraq, as per the details of the Status of Forces Agreement between the (then) Bush and Maliki governments.

Iraq

New Atlanticist

Jun 29, 2009

Center of the French Speaking World Shifts to Africa

By Douglas Muir

If you’re a human being who speaks French, you’re more likely to be African than European. La Francophonie’s demographic center of gravity is now somewhere around Bamako, Mali. If you’re a human being who is literate in French — say, at a high school graduate level — you’re probably European. But not for much longer.

France Sahel

New Atlanticist

Jun 27, 2009

Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan are Strategic Partners

By David Phillips

Turkey’s military strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq were a tactical and political success.  Applying military pressure catalyzed Ankara’s decision to offer Iraqi Kurdistan political and economic rewards in exchange for cooperation against the PKK, a U.S.-listed terrorist organization that Turkey holds responsible for 30,000 deaths since 1984. As a result, Turkey and Iraqi […]

Iraq Turkey

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

NATO Gains Weight

By the National Interest

From the National Interest: NATO has become the worst example of America’s junior-high foreign policy. Washington and its more traditional allies have welcomed a succession of new members which are security black holes, bringing with them geopolitical conflicts rather than security assets. Little pretense could be made that expanding NATO to Albania, Romania and similar […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

NATO Tweets Too

By Fast Company

From Fast Company: Twitter gained a lot of credibility thanks to its use by Iranian protestors recently, and we already knew that it was useful for spreading breaking news. But did you know that NATO, the global military machine, Twitters too? Check out NATO’s main feed at Twitter here . . . It gives NATO […]

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

Cyber armies are gearing up in the cold war of the web

By the Guardian

From the Guardian: Last week the Nato-backed Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, based in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, held its inaugural annual conference, and the need and wisdom of creating an offensive strategy was centre stage. Nato’s hawks argue that unless you develop an active deterrence strategy and threaten your opponents with cybergeddon, […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

U.S.-Russia Moscow Summit Presents Last Opportunity to Avoid War in Georgia

By the Jamestown Foundation

Pavel Felgenhauer presents several pieces of information that could explain why sales of Red Storm Rising might be going through the roof in Georgia. From the Jamestown Foundation: While the Obama visit is being prepared, Moscow is continuing military and propaganda preparations for a possible full-scale military invasion to change the present pro-Western regime of […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

NATOSource: Turkish military leader calls for alliance solidarity against terrorism

By the Jamestown Foundation

From the Jamestown Foundation: [Turkey’s Chief of Staff, General Ilker] Basbug was implicitly voicing Turkey’s complaint that some NATO members were not sensitive to Turkey’s struggle against the PKK. Ankara argues that the complacency of some European countries toward the activities of the PKK in Europe undermines the spirit of solidarity within the Alliance. Therefore, […]

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

Presence Of Russian Forces In Abkhazia South Ossetia Is Inappropriate Nato

By Turkish Weekly

From Turkish Weekly: The presence of Russian troops in Abkhazia and South Ossetia is inappropriate, NATO Secretary General Special Representative in Central Asia and South Caucasus Robert Simmons told reporters in the Security Forum of Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council which is underway in Astana. “We believe that the presence of Russian troops is inappropriate and a […]

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2009

NATO, you lover boy!

By Russia Today

Perhaps the most eye catching story from this week’s meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in Astana . An unflattering geostrategic analogy from Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s ambassador to NATO, and a swift defense of NATO’s honor by Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. If Medvedev followed Rogozin’s advice, Moscow would have a more success offering […]

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