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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

May 29, 2009

Europe’s Last Dictatorship

By Wall Street Journal

Jeffrey Gedmin visits Minsk and presents strong reasons for the US and the EU to continue pressure on the Belarus regime. From Wall Street Journal: “NATO sees Belarus as a potential threat toneighboring Lithuania. Russian tanks stationed in Belarus can be in theLithuanian capital, Vilnius, in about 90 minutes . . . The man who […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 29, 2009

Russia creates its own version of NATO in Central Asia to be prepared for big war

By Pravda

From Pravda: “The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) follows the instructions from President Dmitry Medvedev, who ordered to increase the military constituent and develop the coalition force development. A strong military group, which may appear in Central Asia in the nearest future, will make the CSTO become an analogue of NATO. The following post-Soviet countries […]

New Atlanticist

May 29, 2009

Euroskepticism Growing on Eve of EU Parliament Elections

By James Joyner

AFP highlights a new poll showing support for the EU is flagging ahead of elections for the European Parliament.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 29, 2009

Ukraine: A Delicate Balancing Act

By David Kramer and Damon Wilson

Russia has always had a knack for overshadowing its neighbors – and this time the West, focused on Moscow, is distracted from a crisis in Ukraine. As U.S. President Barack Obama gears up to “reset” Russia relations, Ukraine is in disarray. The country is teetering between economic collapse, Russian influence, and vague promises of Western […]

Ukraine

NATOSource

May 28, 2009

Putin to the West: Hands off Ukraine

By TIME

From TIME: “In April 2008, a source told Russia’s Kommersant newspaper how Putin described Ukraine to George Bush at a NATO meeting in Bucharest: ‘You don’t understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us.'”

Ukraine United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 28, 2009

Longer NATO Air Role Seems Likely for Baltics

By Defense News

From Defense News: “The alliance has agreed to deploy fighters for quick-reaction alert duties until 2018, but a more likely date for a handover to local forces is six years after that, said the chief of staff at Siauliai, Lithuania’s only military air base.Work on building Lithuania’s fighter capability would have had to start in […]

NATOSource

May 28, 2009

NATO praises Morocco’s role in promoting dialogue between Alliance and MD countries

By Maghreb Arabe Presse

From Maghreb Arabe Presse: “NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Ambassador Martin Erdmann, commended Morocco’s role at the level of its bilateral relations with NATO and at the regional level through the promotion of dialogue, cooperation and understanding between the Alliance and Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) countries.”

NATOSource

May 28, 2009

Euro force, NATO overlap

By Washington Times

From Washington Times: “For example, the two jostled for helicopters badlyneeded for both the NATO mission in Afghanistan and the EU mission in Chad in early 2008.‘[It] turned into a beauty contest between NATO and the EU,’ Mr. Whitney said.”

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

Casey: Current Tempo Unsustainable

By James Joyner

General George Casey, speaking tonight at the Atlantic Council, clarified his widely quoted remarks that “we’re going to have 10 Army and Marine units deployed for a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan,” insisting that he was not making policy but doing his job to “organize, train, and equip” the force for possible contingences. 

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

Jones: North Korea Nukes ‘Not an Imminent Threat’

By James Joyner

National Security Advisor Jim Jones declared in a speech to the Atlantic Council that the recent testing of a nuclear device and firing of Taepodong missiles by North Korea “are not an imminent threat” to the United States or the regions because “they have a long way to go” in perfecting the technology to weaponize […]

Korea
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