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GMF Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Berlin Gala May 22, 2012 / BerlinThe German Marshall Fund celebrated its 40th anniversary with a gala dinner at eWerk, an event space, in Berlin on Tuesday, May 22.
GMF Transatlantic Fellow Kati Suominen joined C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss the purpose of the G8 and NATO summits and what impact the outcomes of the meetings will have.
In this podcast, GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Bruce Stokes interviews Ken Endo, a Professor at Hokkaido University School of Law in Japan, about the impact of the euro-debt crisis on Asia. Endo gives his view on changes to banking regulations and how Japan should take a role in shaping future regulations for the global financial sector.
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Making the Most of 1 Percent: Investing in America’s Global Role through the U.S. International Affairs Budget December 12, 2011 / Jim Kolbe, Glenn Nye, Dodie Jones
The role the United States plays in world affairs is heavily dependent on how Americans choose to invest in the elements of national power. But distorted public perception of foreign assistance, combined with an economic recession and an austere budget environment, threaten to deprive the United States’ civilian foreign affairs agencies of the resources needed to project U.S. influence globally. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more thoughtful discussion of the international affairs budget by: 1) highlighting the increasingly challenging environment for international affairs funding; 2) outlining the components of the international affairs budget and mapping them against U.S. national interests and values overseas; and 3) challenging the conventional wisdom regarding international affairs funding and considering the trade-offs that would result from significant cuts to the international affairs budget.
