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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
Events
Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
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
Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project
September 20, 2008
The Stanley Foundation Working Paper Reaction by Robert Cooper
The creation of the European Union — or what is often known as the European project — is a remarkable and ongoing experiment. It is the example par excellence of norm-building at home and, increasingly, the projection of those norms abroad. At its heart, European integration was and remains a Wilsonian project designed to ban the possibility of conflict through the application of the rule of law and norm-building on a transnational scale. The enforcement of such norms is the core of the European Union’s power. With its aim originally limited to banning conflict in Europe – and above all in the relationship between France and Germany – the EU today has since graduated to a much broader vision of both unifying the European continent as a whole and seeking to be a model and inspiration for a global order based on the rule of law and international norms.
