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On Defense, France Bites the Bullet, But Avoids Strategic Insolvency May 7, 2013
Iceland’s Recovery Saga Presents Opportunities for Brussels, Washington—and Beijing May 6, 2013
Which Way Forward for Europe’s Hybrid Regimes? May 2, 2013
The Arab Revolts and the Liberal Order May 2, 2013
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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
Publications Archive
Democracy as Self-Correction December 10, 2012 / Ivan Krastev
The central political paradox of our analysis of the current state of democracy is that the key factors that contributed to the democratization of society have also led to the erosion of trust in democratic institutions. The current crisis of democracy then is not an outcome of some institutional failure of democracy; on the contrary it is a product of democracy’s success. It is the result of five revolutions that have shattered our world in the last 50 years and made us more free but less powerful than before: the Woodstock-Wall Street revolution of the 1970s and 1980s; the end of history revolutions of 1989; the digital revolution of the 1990s; the demographic revolution; and the political brain revolution brought by the new discoveries in the brain sciences and behaviorist economics. The question is, will democracy transformed be able to function as a self-correcting society?
