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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
News & Analysis Archive
China’s Environment: An Economic Death SentenceJanuary 28, 2013 / Minxin PeiFortune.com
Given decades of environmental neglect and China's heavy reliance on coal, it would be difficult to produce a dramatic improvement quickly.Superpower Denied? Why China’s ‘Rise’ May Have Already PeakedAugust 09, 2012 / Minxin PeiThe Diplomat
How a toxic mix of economic, demographic, environmental, political, and international challenges could end China's ascent.The End Of China’s Economic MiracleJuly 09, 2012 / Minxin PeiDaily Beast
Twenty years ago, Japan experienced the humiliation of going from world economic champ to chump within a few years of its financial meltdown. Today it seems to be China’s turn.
Hanging Between Hope and Fear: Italians at the Heart of International CrisisOctober 25, 2011 / Emiliano AlessandriIstituto Affari Internazionali
Italy’s public opinion seems more open and daring of its political elites on some hot issues of the international agenda. Although increasingly concerned about the economic context and for the future of the European integration process, Italians seems rather optimist about stabilizing the situation in Libya and strongly in favor of promoting democracy in the Arab world, even if this entails the risk of greater short-term instability.
UN Climate Talks and Power Politics: It’s Not about the TemperatureMay 25, 2011 / Daniel Twining
Must U.S. climate diplomacy be a wedge rather than a bridge between the United States and key international partners? GMF Senior Fellow for Asia, Daniel Twining's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on climate diplomacy.
What Future for Japan?May 11, 2011 / Daniel M. Kliman
The devastation wrought by the Great Tohoku Earthquake has reinforced perceptions inside and outside Japan of the country’s seemingly irreversible slide from economic superpower to sick man of Asia. Yet it would be premature to count Japan out as a factor in international politics.
Democracy and a Piece of ClothingJuly 18, 2008 / Thomas Kleine-BrockhoffPostGlobal, Washington PostFrance has rejected a citizenship application from a burqa-wearing Moroccan woman on the grounds that she has "insufficiently assimilated" to French culture. Should cultural assimilation be a requirement for citizenshipTeaching Entrepreneurship in the Arab WorldAugust 14, 2007 / Stefan TheilNewsweek InternationalIf the Middle East is to have any shot of making up for decades of past stagnation, it's going to need many more kids like Hodeib, eager to build new companies and create new jobs. That's the rationale behind a small but growing movement of educators and CEOs, Western aid agencies and multinationals, royals and even Islamists, who are now trying to inject the entrepreneurial virus into the region's youth.Strategies instead of blindfoldsJanuary 15, 2007 / Tanja WunderlichDas ParlamentIt was suddenly as if a catalepsy had dissolved. On January 1, 2005, Germany's new immigration law was passed. It was just as much a rejection of the native multiculturalism of earlier years as it was a heated, populist warning of terrorist infiltration. (Article in German)