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On Defense, France Bites the Bullet, But Avoids Strategic Insolvency May 7, 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
Economic Ties Can Save Africa’s Arab Spring
January 15, 2013 / Ghazi Ben Ahmed, Ellen Laipson
Bloomberg
Two years after the fall of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the economic imperative for political stability in North Africa requires some bold and fresh thinking. One idea worthy of more attention is promoting regional economic integration.
Commerce among the Maghreb countries -- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania -- has been hovering around 3 percent to 4 percent of all the trade they conduct, making the region probably the least integrated in the world. Overcoming this failure would help to open borders and allow for greater efficiencies, economic diversification and economies of scale, drawing on each country’s relative strengths in human and natural resources.
Read the complete article at Bloomberg.
GMF’s Ghazi Ben Ahmed is the director of the MENA Partnership for Democracy & Development based in Tunis, Tunisia. Ellen Laipson is president and chief executive officer of the Stimson Center in Washington.
