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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.
In this podcast, GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Bruce Stokes interviews Pawel Swieboda, President of demosEUROPA in Warsaw, Poland, about how the European debt crisis will change EU-Asia relations.
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.
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Turkey and the EU: The Limits of Unconditional Alignment January 05, 2012 / Diba Nigar Göksel
Turkey and its Western allies have been more effective when they have acted together in dealing with the challenges across the Arab world in 2011. In Turkey’s Black Sea neighborhood, where the EU takes more of a lead role than the United States, there is also an opportunity for synergy. However, this potential is limited by the state of Turkey-EU relations. Even while collaborating with the West, Turkey’s leadership has continued to “otherize” the Western powers, mirroring the shortsightedness of some European politicians. Though Turkish alignment on any given case can hardly be taken for granted, Ankara ultimately does need a pillar of its regional balancing act to rest in the axis of Europe. Turkey and the EU need to have the full spectrum of maneuvering space to deal more effectively with prospective economic, political, and strategic strains looming in 2012.
