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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
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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
Recalibrating the Transatlantic Relationship for a Multipolar Age
January 26, 2011 / Constanze Stelzenmueller, Tomas Valasek
The New Transatlantic Paradox
You might call it the Obama Paradox: With the election of Barack Hussein Obama as forty-fourth president of the United States, America chose a leader the entire world seemed to identify with. Europe, in particular, hailed the multi-ethnic, post-racial and cosmopolitan Obama with relief and hope as "one of us." Atlanticists on both sides of the ocean were certain that this president would save and renew the transatlantic alliance. Yet two years later, the United States and Europe are further apart on many key issues than they have ever been—in their policies as much as in public attitudes. For the United States, Europe appears to be less relevant than ever before in recent history; in Europe, anti-Americanism seems to be drifting into simple (and often not even hostile) indifference. The transatlantic gap, far from having narrowed, seems to have widened.
The post-World War II alliance between the United States and Europe, grounded as it was in the shared experience of survival after an epochal mass slaughter, in a common perception of threat and in widely overlapping interests and values, was bound to mutate with the passage of generations into a more pragmatic, less emotional relationship. Then, at least for a moment, the attacks of 11 September 2001 seemed to herald a return to the old sense of unity, based on a joint stance against a global terrorist threat. But in retrospect, it has become clear that the so called Global War on Terror was an interlude as well.
For the full article, please see the Centre for European Studies website.
