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Setting the New U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda May 14, 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
The Middle East and Turkish Public Opinion September 27, 2011 / Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
Several surveys probing Turkish public opinion on foreign relations, threats, and sympathies have found a relatively large reservoir of good will toward the Arab countries and Iran, as well as fear, distrust, and perceived ill will from the United States, EU, and Israel in Turkey. What were the Turkish respondents thinking? One major factor in the sea change of public opinion in Turkey has been the success of the Islamist movement’s capacity to survive in dire circumstances from the 1920s to 1950, and then to regenerate itself into a major political force. The Turkish mindset began to shift toward heavily religious conservatism by the mid-1990s. A resocialization of the Turkish public has created a new mind-set that emphasizes religious identity in defining who the Turkish citizens are and promotes the observation of the world through the prism of religious conflict.
