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Setting the New U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda May 14, 2013
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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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
Publications Archive
Taking Stock: Turkey and the Turkic World 20 Years Later November 10, 2011 / Nadir Devlet
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Turkey attempted to step into the power vacuum left in Central Asia. It sensed an opportunity for itself because of its close ethnic, linguistic, and religious connections to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. After recognizing the newly independent Turkic republics, Ankara started to establish institutions to develop relations with them and encouraged businessmen, universities, and artists to do so. But these initiatives have not always delivered results or facilitated real cooperation. Yet we should not be surprised to see Ankara assigning heightened importance to the larger Turkic world in its emerging foreign policy as Turkey gives up its former commitment to the status quo for a more visible strategic activism.
