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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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Strengthening the U.S.-Korea Alliance for the 21st Century: The Role of Korean-American Partnership in Shaping Asia’s Emerging Order April 01, 2010 / Daniel Twining
Is the U.S. alliance with the Republic of Korea (ROK) stuck in the past? A comparison with many of Washington's other relationships with Asian powers might make it seem so. Despite uncertainties with arising from Japan's new domestic political constellation, the U.S.-Japan alliance has transformed beyond recognition over the past 15 years as the two countries used their partnership as a framework to promote Japan's evolutionary "normalization" as a great power. From attempting to constrain Indian power in the 1990s through technological and other sanctions, the United States in the 200s has invested systematically in propelling India's geopolitical rise as an Asian balancer and global player. The U.S.-Australian alliance has been modernized and Washington has forged qualitatively closer relations with Indonesia and Vietnam, Southeast Asia's key swing states. By contrast, the U.S.-South Korea alliance has not been similarly transformed; it remains in some ways frozen by the continuing conflict on the Korean peninsula.
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