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A Marshall Plan for Ukraine

The Marshall Plan was an audacious, innovative strategy to tackle the most pressing challenges of its time.

Amid Russia's war on Ukraine, the German Marshall Fund of the United States provides insights, commentary, and analysis on a Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction through the spirit of the Marshall Plan.
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Transatlantic Trends 2022

The geopolitical turmoil of 2022 presents a multitude of challenges for the transatlantic community. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s geostrategic ambitions to the worsening climate crisis and democratic backsliding, greater transatlantic cooperation is of paramount importance.
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GMF at 50

This year the German Marshall Fund marks its 50th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. These historic moments serve as an opportunity to highlight the achievements of one of the most important American diplomatic initiatives of the 20th century and how its legacy lives on today through GMF and its mission.
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Brussels Forum 2022

On June 27-29, GMF hosted the 17th annual Brussels Forum, our flagship conference that brings together transatlantic leaders and decision-makers from both sides of the Atlantic to find solutions for the most critical challenges facing our democracies across the globe.
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October 13, 2022

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October 03, 2022

A Modern Marshall Plan for Ukraine

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September 07, 2022

Designing Ukraine’s Recovery in the Spirit of the Marshall Plan

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Stories of Impact

"Putin can bomb and destroy Ukrainian cities, but he has already lost this war, because the Ukrainian nation is united in will to resist and fight back, be free and sovereign. I am proud of my people, army, government, and president."
Dmytro Tuzhanskyi
Policy Designers Network Alumni
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GMF's Open European Dialogue (OED) has been selected by the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) as a global best practice and an “innovative network tackling cross-border innovation.”
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"The images you see of Belarus in the media cannot tell you everything that is happening there now. When I traveled to my home country shortly after the presidential elections, I found myself at the center of the Belarusian protests and was able to witness the events on the ground. What I saw there is both inspiring and unsettling."
Sophija Savtchouk
Program Assistant
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“As a person with a disability, government officials were not going to meet with me if they heard that there was a person with a disability who wanted to meet them. But when they heard that a MMF wanted to meet them, they went out of their way to make that happen. The prestige and reputation of the MMF program and GMF got me in the room when I would not have otherwise been allowed in.”
Kerry Thompson
2014 Marshall Memorial Fellow
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“This information that we are a different country, a different republic, was introduced to us early. When you’re a little girl who has to identify herself with one side or the other…it is sad to deal with.”
Mihaela
Black Sea Trust Grantee
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Steven Bosacker

 Director, GMF Cities
Washington, DC Office

Steven Bosacker directs the GMF Cities program for the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).  The urban portfolio supports local-level policymakers and practitioners in North America and Europe by facilitating the transatlantic exchange of knowledge for building inclusive, sustainable, and globally engaged cities.

Michael Kimmage

 Visiting Fellow
Washington, DC Office

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio.

Bonnie S. Glaser

 Director, Asia Program
Washington, DC Office

Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy.

Kristine Berzina

 Senior Fellow, Security and Defense Policy
Washington, DC Office

Kristine Berzina is a senior fellow for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). She is based in GMF’s Washington office, where she leads the security and defense portfolio and focuses on US security cooperation with Europe, NATO, US-EU relations, and sub-threshold threats including disinformation and energy. She also co-leads GMF’s Russia Transatlantic Initiative. Berzina appears frequently in international media, including the BBC, CNN, France 24, NPR, Deutsche Welle, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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