GMF

  • Despite cash crunch, America needs to remain a leader

    Despite cash crunch, America needs to remain a leader

    It’s easy to get lost in America’s big budget debate. There is so much talk of impending shutdowns and continuing resolutions, debt reduction and tax reform, revenues and spending cuts. And both U.S. President Barack Obama and the House Republicans...

  • NATO's new strategic concept must reflect today's strategic reality

    NATO's new strategic concept must reflect today's strategic reality

    By Dan Fata More than a decade has passed since NATO last updated its Strategic Concept, an official document intended to reinforce the founding treaty by updating the military alliance’s key priorities. A new initiative is underway, led by former...

  • Moldova: What a difference a year makes!

    Moldova: What a difference a year makes!

    By David J. Kramer, Alina Inayeh, and Pavol Demes Exactly a year ago, Moldova was a mess. Two days after parliamentary elections, on April 7, 2009, initial results showed the Communist Party with a lead big enough to maintain control over the legislature...

  • Ukraine’s post-election “To-do” list"

    The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) releases another analysis piece for its Focus on Ukraine series. In "Ukraine’s Post-Election “To-Do” List," GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow David J. Kramer examines the election...

  • Obama, Europe, and the inevitable

    By Craig Kennedy What will the overwhelming European support of President Obama mean for transatlantic relations? Will this unprecedented level of confidence in an American leader preface a new golden age of common perspectives on global and bilateral...