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New Atlanticist

Nov 28, 2014

The Cheapening of Oil and What It Means

By New Atlanticist

Atlantic Council’s Manning: US May Benefit, But Must Review Its Strategy, in a New World of ‘Peak Demand’ World oil prices have slipped again (to about $73 a barrel) after the global cartel, OPEC, declined on November 27 to cut the amount of crude petroleum its members pump into the planet’s economy. Instead, OPEC followed […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

NATOSource

Nov 26, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving

By Jorge Benitez, Director of NATOSource

The NATOSource website will be dark until Monday, December 1. Our Twitter account @NATOSource is active and will continue to provide NATO news and analysis during the US holiday.

United States and Canada
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and NATO leaders at the Wales Summit, Sept. 4, 2014

NATOSource

Nov 26, 2014

German Analysis of Russian Aggression in Ukraine and NATO’s Response

By Claudia Major and Jana Puglierin, IP Journal

In the military sphere, the altered security order has led to a renewal of NATO’s role as both a defense alliance and a form of a life insurance, taking precedence over the EU.

European Union Germany

New Atlanticist

Nov 26, 2014

How France Will Be a Test of Europe’s Ability to Enforce Its Budget Rules

By Andrea Montanino

European Union Aims to Put New Muscle into Limiting Deficits; Will it Succeed? Since 2009, France’s state budget has been breaking the rules. It has been exceeding the European Union’s limit on the size of deficits, which are limited (under the Maastricht Treaty) to 3 percent of gross domestic product unless there are exceptional circumstances. Once […]

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Nov 26, 2014

The Unpredictability of the November 28 Protests

By Sarah El Sirgany

What initially started out as a call to protest that not many took notice of, the Salafi Front’s plans for mass protests on November 28, has slowly attracted more attention. This is in some part due to official warnings and vows of forceful confrontations, and is fueling concerns about violence on Egypt’s streets on Friday.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Nov 26, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | November 26

By Jim Rupert

Moldova Votes on Sunday: Will Russia Win That Election? Via Bloomberg Obama Should Say It Clearly: Russia Has Invaded Ukraine via Philadelphia Inquirer Merkel Secretly Goes One-On-One with Putin, Hits a Dead-End via Reuters Amid Ukraine’s Crisis, Its High-Tech Industry Is Booming via Forbes Putin Youth: The Young Russians Who See the President as a Father via Newsweek

Ukraine

FutureSource

Nov 26, 2014

The Future of Energy: Shale, Bringing Energy Back to the West

By Jack Shaked

It seems like every day, an entirely new advancement or discovery is made in the energy sector. From solar to fusion to thorium, it is hard to determine what the future of energy will look like and what impacts these advances will have on the world. Over the next few weeks, The Future of Energy […]

Energy & Environment Oil and Gas

MENASource

Nov 26, 2014

To News: Raba’a Leaders Responsible for Sit-in’s Victims Says Fact-Finding Committee

By EgyptSource

A fact-finding committee formed to investigate events in Egypt since the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi announced on Wednesday that a total of 693 civilians and ten policemen died when security forces dispersed pro-Morsi sit-ins in greater Cairo on August 14, 2013.

MENASource

Nov 26, 2014

Targeting Assad: The Corrosive Split that Sidelined Hagel

By Peter Kirechu

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned the morning of November 24, his exit tied to irreconcilable disagreement with White House leadership on a variety of foreign policy issues of which the administration’s gloved response to Syria’s Assad certainly featured.

Syria

MENASource

Nov 26, 2014

Top News: Death Toll in Regime Airstrikes on Raqqa Rises to Ninety-Five

By MENASource

The death toll from a series of Syrian government airstrikes on the Islamic State in Iraq and al-sham (ISIS) stronghold in northeastern Syria has risen to at least ninety-five, making it one of the deadliest attacks on the city of Raqqa in the past three years.

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