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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
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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
Events
Walking Through the Open Door: The U.S. Role in Helping Bosnia-Herzegovina Join a Europe Whole and Free May 28, 2009 / Washington, DC
On May 28, GMF hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “Walking Through the Open Door:The U.S. Role in Helping Bosnia-Herzegovina Join a Europe Whole and Free.” The conversation featured Douglas Davidson, Ivan Vejvoda, and Pavol Demes, and focused on recent developments in Bosnia and gave recommendations for U.S. government policy in this multi-ethnic country bordering Serbia and Croatia.
Ambassador Davidson is a distinguished visiting fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and former head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event also highlighted the release of Ambassador Davidson’s most recent policy paper of the same title, which is available for download. Click here to view the publication.
Ivan Vejvoda is the executive director of the Balkan Trust for Ivan VejvodaDemocracy, a GMF project dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in Southeastern Europe, was a key figure in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia through the 1990s. He is widely published on the subjects of democratic transition, totalitarianism, and post-war reconstruction in the Balkans.
Pavol Demeš is the director of GMF’s Bratislava office, where he oversees GMF’s activities in Central and Eastern Europe. He has a distinguished political and civic reform career, serving as foreign policy advisor to the president of the Slovak Republic, minister of international relations, and director of the Department of Foreign Relations in the Ministry of Education. He was a key activist in the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and has been involved in peaceful democratic revolutions in Serbia in 2000 and Ukraine in2004.
