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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
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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
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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.
