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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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Waves, Ways and Historical Turns: Turkey’s Strategic Quest February 01, 2012 / Soli Özel
The quest for autonomy is not a new phenomenon in the conduct of Turkish foreign policy. The question is not whether or not Turkey, or its current rulers, will continue to seek autonomy in foreign policy even in an environment that brings them, once more, closer to their Western partners. The real question is whether or not Turkey will be able to consistently have the capacity to pursue an autonomous foreign policy and simply instrumentalize its alliance relations. Turkey faced three waves of environmental challenges since the end of the Cold War. Not coincidentally, these periods also corresponded to the discovery and then twice to the “resurrection” of a “Turkish model” that could be put to use to safeguard mainly Western interests.
