Mediterranean
The Mediterranean region – southern Europe, Turkey, North Africa, the Levant, and the maritime approaches to these areas – is increasingly important to European and American interests. The Mediterranean will also pose significant challenges and opportunities for transatlantic cooperation over the next decade. Key issues, from migration to human security, from energy trade to nonproliferation, will have a strong Mediterranean dimension. Europe’s strategy in the Mediterranean is evolving rapidly, with the launch of the Union for the Mediterranean within the EU’s Neighborhood Policy. Countries of the southern Mediterranean face their own difficult social and security challenges, including the challenge of regional integration.
The US, for its part, has been a power in the Mediterranean for over 200 years, but has never had a Mediterranean strategy per se.
GMF News & Analysis
As the geopolitical implications of the Arab uprisings become clearer, the EU and Turkey should adopt a more lucid and nuanced
approach to democracy and a more explicitly political response to the “Arab Spring.”Book Review: Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign PolicyJanuary 08, 2013 / Emiliano Alessandri
Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy is a welcome addition to the fast-growing literature in English on Turkish foreign policy.
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TurkeyTurkey is an important transatlantic partner which has been going through a transformation for the last decade, the foreign policy dimensions of which are widely debated by opinion leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.
MediterraneanThe Mediterranean Policy Program promotes a policy-oriented debate on Mediterranean issues with the aim to strengthen transatlantic cooperation and suggest ways to streamline European and U.S. initiatives in the region.
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Italy and the Eurozone: Challenges AheadApril 17, 2013
The Mediterranean Program of GMF hosted a discussion on the political and economic future of Italy with Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and Ettore Greco.The Future of Mediterranean Europe Takes Centre Stage at the Mediterranean Strategy Group in LisbonMarch 27, 2013
The German Marshall Fund of the United States organized the seventh meeting of the Mediterranean Strategy Group. This meeting was held in Lisbon, and focused on the theme “The Future of Mediterranean Europe: Between the Euro Crisis and Arab Revolutions.”Trilateral Strategy Group: “Growth, Innovation and the New Geo-Economics: European, Turkish and American Perspectives”March 03, 2013The seventh meeting of the Trilateral Strategy Group was held in İstanbul, from March 3-5. YTN Members Quiz Kathleen Fitzpatrick on U.S. Approaches to Civilian Security across the WorldDecember 13, 2012
Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, of the U.S. Department of State discusses human rights with members of YTN Brussels. Publications More
Kurdish Peace Process Remains on TrackMay 10, 2013 / Amberin Zaman
This policy brief offers possible explanations for the current peace talks between the Turkish government and PKK.
Syria and Iraq ― Convergence and Divergence in U.S.-Turkish AssessmentsMay 02, 2013 / Hassan Mneimneh
This policy brief explains how Turkey's international credibility has suffered from the situations in Syria and Iran.
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