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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 26, 2009

Georgia Hands Over Annual Programme to NATO

By Civil Georgia

From Civil Georgia: “Robert Simmons, NATO’s special representative for South Caucasus and Central Asia, received from the Georgian government in Tbilisi on May 25, the country’s Annual National Programme (ANP).The document, which is not public, is, as NATO diplomat said, “a roadmap” for Georgia’s eventual NATO membership.”

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2009

North Korea Tests: Why? What Now?

By James Joyner

Over what, for Americans, was a long holiday weekend, North Korea tested another nuclear device and followed that up by firing two more short-range ballistic missiles, moves sure to heighten fear among its neighbors and further isolate the regime.   The question most observers are asking is Why now?

Korea

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2009

Energy Insecurity as a Destabilizing Factor: The Case of the Hermit Kingdom

By Boyko Nitzov

On a popular image showing the Earth at night, there is an expanse appearing to be an open sea or icy desert. This is North Korea: a dark spot between the bright city lights of Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea. It is in this darkness that a second test of a nuclear weapon […]

Energy & Environment
STOCK - Russia

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2009

American Policy for Russia: Democracy

By David Smith

US President Barack Obama heads to Moscow July 6-8.  With his trip just six weeks off, and the new American administration still crafting a foreign policy, newspaper pundits, including the author of this column, are scribbling.  Opinions abound, but almost all agree that it is time for Obama to step “Beyond the “Reset Button.'”

Russia United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

May 24, 2009

Turkey-Armenia Reconciliation: The Right Side of History

By David Phillips

The recent announcement normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations is a potentially historic breakthrough. However, the lack of progress in implementing the “framework agreement” raises questions about Turkey’s intentions and resolve. Turkey’s prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, is buckling to domestic opposition and objections from Azerbaijan. Moreover, the announcement of the normalization “road map” on the eve of Armenian […]

Turkey

New Atlanticist

May 23, 2009

Obama Foreign Policy: Bush 2.0?

By James Joyner

Charles Krauthammer notes, as many have lately, the remarkable similarity between the Obama foreign policy and the Bush foreign policy he campaigned against so vociferously.  He cleverly dubs it the “Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy. “

NATOSource

May 22, 2009

At EU-Russia Summit, Signs Of Strategic Division, Not Strategic Partnership

By RFE/RL

From RFE/RL: “Medvedev also tried to press his advantage at the summit by urging the EU to back his plans for a new ‘security architecture’ for Europe. At the press conference, he sharply attacked NATO — which includes as members most EU member states. ‘We have partnership relations, for example, with the North Atlantic bloc. […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

May 22, 2009

Major military exercise extended

By BBC

From BBC: “Europe’s largest military exercise – Joint Warrior – is to beextended from two to three weeks this October.Held twice a year in spring and autumn, it sees some of the training of Nato armies and navies held in Scotland and in the sea off its coast.”

United Kingdom

NATOSource

May 22, 2009

The AKP’s Foreign Policy: The Misnomer of “Neo-Ottomanism”

By the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "The AKP’s Econo-Islamist foreign policy orientation has turned Turkey into a country which has as good, and sometimes even friendlier, relations with Iran, Russia, Syria, Sudan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as it enjoys with the United States, the EU, and Israel. Ankara will likely opt […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

May 22, 2009

Turkish commander sparks debate in Greece

By Hurriyet

From Hurriyet: “Greek newspapers express concerns about a NATO restructuring under which Greek and Turkish commanders will take turns heading the alliance’s Larissa military headquarters. Some Greeks say the appointment of a Turkish commander will make it easier for Turkish warplanes to fly in Greek airspace” For background see Turkish general to command NATO center […]

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