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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
Which Way Forward for Europe’s Hybrid Regimes? May 2, 2013
The Arab Revolts and the Liberal Order May 2, 2013
Events
GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
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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May 2013
May 13, 2013
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
May 10, 2013 / Andrew SmallAnchor 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
May 10, 2013In this video from the Mediterranean Strategy Group in Lisbon, Luis Amado, chairman of Banco Internacional do Funchal, discusses the external pressures being put on the EU to reform.
May 06, 2013In this video from the Mediterranean Strategy Group in Lisbon, Elena Panaritis, founder and director of Panel Group and Thought Action, explains the growing disconnect between Europeans and their governments.
May 03, 2013In this video, H. E. Egemen Bagis, Turkish minister for EU affairs and chief negotiator, explains why Turkey has a unique role to play as a bridge between the West and the Middle East.
Apr 2013
April 30, 2013 / Mark R. JacobsonThe U.S. has urged NATO to reconsider its role in Syria, as there are allegations of chemical weapons use. What is NATO's next move? What are the options to resolve the conflict?
April 30, 2013In this video, Megan Greene, chief economist at Maverick Intelligence, discusses a variety issues about the future of southern European economies and the United States' response to the euro crisis.
April 29, 2013The Urban Center explores and guides the urban form of the city of Torino, Italy. What, if anything, could it teach other European and American cities?
April 29, 2013In this video, Former Turkish Ambassador Murat Ozcelik explains why the United States and Turkey agree on most Middle East policy decisions, even if they may disagree on how these policies should be implemented.
April 25, 2013In this video from the Mediterranean Strategy Group in Lisbon, Tomás Duplá del Moral, former director for the Americas at the European External Action Service, explains which sectors of Spain’s economy will fuel growth and stimulate employment.
April 24, 2013In this video, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2008-2010) and to Iraq (2010-2012) discusses the importance of cooperation between Turkey and the United States in addressing conflict in the Middle East.
April 22, 2013In this video, Senior Transatlantic Fellow Hassan Mneimneh discusses the impact of factionalism and sectarianism on stability in the Middle East. He explains how Turkey was able to build a successfully integrated society, while other countries continue to struggle.
April 22, 2013In this video from the Mediterranean Strategy Group Lisbon, Andres Ortega, consultant and former head of policy planning at the Prime Minister's office in Spain, explains the different ways the eurocrisis is affecting southern Europe.
April 18, 2013In this video, New York University Alon Ben-Meir explains the key factors behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apology to Turkey, and the long-term implications of reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
April 17, 2013 / Amy Studdart, Sachin PilotAmy Studdart, program officer in GMF’s Brussels office, discusses the future of India’s economy with Sachin Pilot, India’s Minister for Corporate Affairs, at the India Trilateral Forum.
April 16, 2013 / Constanze Stelzenmueller, Leela PonappaConstanze Stelzenmüller, of the German Marshall Fund, discusses Afghanistan’s future after 2014 with Leela Ponappa, former deputy national security advisor of India.
April 05, 2013 / Thomas Kleine-BrockhoffThomas Kleine-Brockhoff on Background Briefing
April 04, 2013 / Mark R. JacobsonWhat threat does North Korea pose to the US? Is there something different with this year's US-SK joint exercises and the predictable North Korean crisis?
Mar 2013
March 29, 2013 / Carl BildtThe Brussels Forum Mystery Session was on Cybersecurity.
March 29, 2013 / Craig KennedyGlobal Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council's series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future.
The report predicts the four mega trends that we might see in coming years.
These are individual involvement, diffusion of power, demographic patterns, and growing food, water, and energy nexus.
March 29, 2013 / Ian LesserThe Atlantic area is an ever more dynamic and crowded neighborhood in a shrinking world. During the 20th century, its center of gravity was firmly in the North, with the United States and Europe dominating the region and radiating globalization from the basin outward. The 21st century is so far featuring a rebalancing of relations across the basin, with the emerging markets of Latin America and Africa gaining a more prominent role vis a vis challenged Northern Atlantic economies. As political development and the spread of capital, technology, and knowledge empower Southern Atlantic societies, South Africa, the new Brazil, and Mexico, among others, are looking for new venues of influence through the Atlantic highways. At the same time, Atlantic resources, from raw materials to energy, are making the basin a key arena of global competition. China's investment and presence in the Americas is more recent than in Africa but is rapidly expanding. India is following suit. And so are others, bringing globalization back to where it started.
March 28, 2013In this video, Transatlantic Academy Compagnia di San Paolo Fellow Ruth Hanau Santini analyzes the origins of Beppe Grillo’s popularity in the recent Italian elections.
March 28, 2013For the last decade, much of the transatlantic discourse has been driven by the question of what European partners can do to support U.S. strategy in key regions, and on critical issues. Successive U.S. administrations have pressed European governments to increase their defense spending, enlarge and extend their commitments in Afghanistan, and uphold a common front on the Iranian nuclear challenge. In the Balkans and North Africa, the United States has grown increasingly comfortable with the idea of Europe taking the lead. Absorbed with its own economic challenges since 2008, the United States has taken an arms-length approach to Europe's financial and political travails, but with a clear preference for stimulus over austerity. On a range of global issues, including climate policy, Washington has been reluctant to embrace an ambitious approach. The growing U.S. attention to Asia in strategic terms has only reinforced Washington's interest in seeing Europe emerge as a more active and capable global actor. It has also spurred European anxiety about changing U.S. priorities.
March 28, 2013 / Carl BildtWith economic recovery still sluggish in the United States and Europe still dealing with its economic crisis, the European Union and the United States have jointly decided to launch negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to boost jobs and growth. The case for such an agreement is strong. Although trade barriers are already low, the sheer size of the transatlantic economy —$30 trillion — means that even small improvements can yield significant gains. With half of the world GDP, one-third of world trade flows and 15 million jobs linked to it, the transatlantic economy is still the driver of the world economy. A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would thus have global implications and could also deliver much needed progress for global trade.
March 28, 2013The United States is well on its way to becoming largely self-sufficient in oil and gas and could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest supplier of hydrocarbons by 2020. Even if U.S. energy independence is still some time away, this is nonetheless a stunning turnaround from decades of U.S. dependence on imported energy sources and all the attendant geopolitical concerns. The change has been driven in part by innovative methods of exploration and extraction of fossil fuels such as shale gas from hydraulic fracturing. In a development entirely unforeseen five years ago, this has caused natural gas supplies in the United States to soar and prices to drop. Europe, in contrast, must pay four to five times more for its natural gas and has become one of the biggest importers of U.S. coal, which is experiencing a sharp decline in its share of U.S. electricity generation as power is increasingly supplied by natural gas. This increasing availability of cheap electricity is helping to bring new vigor to the U.S. economy and there are signs of new manufacturing life in old industrial regions as energy-intensive industries like petrochemicals are finding the United States a more competitive place to do business.
March 28, 2013 / Dhruva JaishankarDhruva Jaishankar of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. joins Mark Niu to discuss the BRICS countries.
March 28, 2013 / Ivan VejvodaWith the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the bipolar world, the nature of the Euroatlantic relationship has changed dramatically. If for over 40 years its main purpose had been relatively straightforward, namely to protect Europe from a well-defined adversary (the Soviet Union), today Europe and the United States are faced with a rapidly changing world necessitating new ways in which they will cooperate.
March 28, 2013Belarus: A Forgotten Story
March 28, 2013 / David IgnatiusFive years after the start of the financial crisis, discussions on both sides of the Atlantic have shifted toward broader questions over the role of government in the economy and the limits of political integration.
March 27, 2013 / Andrew Small, Minxin PeiBrussels Forum 2013 Session, "China in Transition"
March 27, 2013Brussels Forum 2013 Session, "A Conversation with Catherine Ashton"
March 27, 2013Brussels Forum 2013 Session, "From Mali to Syria: Dealing with a Troubled Neighborhood"
March 27, 2013Brussels Forum 2013 Session, "A Fragile World After the Crisis"
March 27, 2013 / Craig KennedyBrussels Forum 2013 Welcome by Mr. Craig Kennedy, President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
March 27, 2013Prof. Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford opens the 2013 Brussels Forum with a discussion on the Fragility of the Global System.
March 26, 2013 / Guillaume Xavier-Bender, Michael LeighAccording to Sir Michael Leigh, the Eurogroup’s rescue package for Cyprus will lead toward reconstruction, stability and eventually growth, but not before a period of hardship.
March 25, 2013In this video, Former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel explains how the resignation of current prime minister Najib Mikati will impact Lebanon and its neighbors.
March 21, 2013 / Guillaume Xavier-Bender, Bruce StokesBruce Stokes, director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center discusses the economic implications and the ultimate goal of a transatlantic economic partnership between the U.S. and the EU.
March 19, 2013 / Alexandra de Hoop SchefferAlexandra de Hoop Scheffer, GMF Paris office director, discusses the 10th anniversary of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq on France Culture, a French radio station.
March 11, 2013In this video, Transatlantic Academy Compagnia di San Paolo Fellow Ruth Hanau Santini discusses the rise of the Five Star Movement and implications of its success in the recent Italian elections.
March 08, 2013Michalis Attalides, Rector, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, discusses what to expect from the recently elected President of Cyprus and his new government. Attalides outlines what could be the top priorities for President Nicos Anastasiades. He also comments on Cyprus' bailout agreements, money laundering, and Cyprus' involvement in NATO's Partnership for Peace.
Feb 2013
February 21, 2013TA Nonresident Fellow Martin Jacques discusses China's emergence as a global power, and the inevitable evolution and expansion of the country's foreign policy.
February 19, 2013In this video, Transatlantic Academy Bosch Public Policy Fellow Mark Leonard discusses British Prime Minister David Cameron's recent call for a renegotiation of his country's relationship with the European Union, and potential referendum on a British EU exit.
February 15, 2013 / Mark LeonardIn this video, Transatlantic Academy Bosch Public Policy Fellow Mark Leonard discusses China’s rise and the potential emergence of an international system dominated by the U.S. and China. The big question going forward, he argues, is the strength of Europe’s voice in an increasingly G2 world.
February 08, 2013As part of the Urban and Regional Policy - Dialogues for Change conference - Tiffany Jana, CEO of TMI Consulting; Tom Spencer, CEO, Interfaith Action of Central Texas; and Stefan Heinig, Head of Urban Development Planning, City of Leipzig; discuss new approaches to civic engagement.
February 05, 2013In this podcast, Chad Bowman, Aerotropolis Project Manager in Memphis and Diedre Malone, President and CEO at The Carter Malone Group, discuss how a partnership between U.S. and German cities will lead to more effective urban development strategies.
February 01, 2013In this video from Stockholm China Forum 11, Director at the Center for Economic Studies Xiao Lian discusses economic priorities and challenges that the new Chinese government will face.
Jan 2013
January 30, 2013 / Daniel TwiningMark Colvin, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, talks to GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Dan Twining about the rise of Asia and the relationship between China, the U.S., and Australia.
January 30, 2013In this video from Stockholm China Forum 11, Director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy Linda Jakobson explains that, despite the rise of China on the global stage, Xi Jinping and the new Chinese leadership will continue to focus on domestic issues.
January 30, 2013In this video, TFMI Fellow Korvi Rakshand discusses his organization, JAAGO, a foundation aimed at improving the lives of children in slums by teaching them English.
January 29, 2013Albert Geiger from Ludwigsburg, DE and Elizabeth Jordan from Flint, MI discuss overcoming budgetary challenges and working on effective community engagement
January 23, 2013In this video, President of the Center for a New American Security Richard Fontaine discusses the rise of the Global Swing States and how this changing world order will impact the United States, China, and the developing world.
January 22, 2013In this video from Stockholm China Forum, Wang Dashu, Economics Professor at Peking University, explains how foreign markets have stalled the Chinese economy and outlines the main priorities for Chinese leadership in the coming years.
January 16, 2013 / Daniel M. Kliman, Alfredo G.A. Valladão, Ian LesserIn this podcast, GMF Transatlantic Fellow Dr. Dan Kliman and Sciences Po Paris Professor Alfredo Valladão discuss GMF's new publication, Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Turkey, Indonesia, and the Future of International Order.
January 16, 2013In this video from the 2012 Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration, Tufyal Choudhury, Senior Adviser at the Open Society Foundation, discusses the findings of his recent report on the impact of counter-terrorism efforts on UK immigrant communities.
January 12, 2013 / Andrew SmallGMF's Andrew Small appeared on CCTV to provide analysis on China's stance on environmental and economic issues in relation to the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report.
January 11, 2013In this video, GMF Fellow Dan Kliman discusses the impact of the rise of Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey on the world order, including the influence of the United States and relations with China.
January 10, 2013 / Ian Lesser
January 09, 2013In this interview from Stockholm China Forum, Kenneth Lieberthal of the Brookings Institution discusses the role Asia and China will play in U.S. President Barack Obama's second term.
January 03, 2013In this interview from Stockholm China Forum, New York Times Correspondent Jane Perlez discusses what it's like to work as a reporter in China and how she sees the country's foreign policy developing.
