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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

May 28, 2009

National Security Advisor Jones: USA Safer Under Obama

By James Joyner

In recent weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has repeatedly proclaimed that changes in U.S. national security policy ordered by President Obama have made the country less safe.  In a speech at the Atlantic Council that was his first domestic address, Obama’s national security advisor, General Jim Jones, said the opposite is true

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2009

How Do They Know That?

By Banning Garrett

There is an all-too-common practice in Washington punditry of attributing strategic intentions to other countries without any apparent evidence.  A recent example is the column by Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, “What to Do About North Korea.”  

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

May 27, 2009

NATO-Russia Council to Meet at Ambassadors Level in Brussels

By ITAR-TASS

From ITAR-TASS: “The Wednesday meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be the second after the resumption of its work (April 29) after the South Ossetian conflict. According to Rogozin, “the weather in our relation is far from summer.” This situation has been aggravated “by the absurd decision of the Alliance to expel two Russian career […]

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2009

In the Shadow of NATO Exercises in Georgia: How Moscow Stopped Worrying and Decided to Embrace NATO

By Donald Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek

As you are reading these lines, the NATO-sponsored Cooperative Longbow 09 – Cooperative Lancer 09 exercises are underway in Georgia. Although they were announced several months ago, are in their fourth iteration, and will be restricted to training peacekeepers, they have already provoked much controversy.   Moscow’s demand that the exercises in a country until recently […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2009

The Greatest National Security Threat

By Harlan Ullman

Last Thursday’s face-off between President Barack Obama speaking at the National Archives and former Vice President Dick Cheney shortly thereafter at the American Enterprise Institute brilliantly exposed what is arguably the greatest threat to the nation. Yet, understandably, no one took notice.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Czech pilots first in action in Baltic

By Baltic Review

From Baltic Review: “Czech pilots of the Jas-39 Gripen fighters who have protected the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia within NATO since May were used for the first time on Thursday, spokesman David Schreier from the command Air Policing told CTK .They intervened against a civilian plane that violated the no-fly border zone between […]

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Discontent Rises Sharply Among Russian Troops

By washingtonpost.com

From washingtonpost.com: “Retired generals and nationalist politicians have accused Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of scaling back Russia’s military ambitions by essentially giving up on trying to maintain an army capable of confronting NATO.”

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Is NATO disrupting Russia ‘reset’?

By Washington Times

Controversial statement by Edward Lozansky, the President of American University in Moscow. From Washington Times: “Russia contributed more to the defeat of the Taliban than any other U.S. ally, including NATO members.”

United States and Canada

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

NATO condemns DPRK nuclear tests

By Xinhua

From Xinhua: “NATO’s decision-making North Atlantic Council on Monday strongly condemned the nuclear and ballistic missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the same day.‘These irresponsible actions by Pyongyang pose a serious challenge to peace, security and stability in the Asia Pacific region and are being universally condemned by the international […]

NATOSource

May 26, 2009

Israel and NATO: A Good Idea Whose Time Will Never Come

By the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

The insightful Josef Joffe carefully weighs the benefits and costs to both NATO and Israel for proposed membership in the alliance. His analysis is a sharp contrast to the superficial level of discussion about the merits of other nations joining NATO. Too much of the current argument for NATO enlargement relies on the use of […]

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