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Despite Doubts over Data Privacy, Germany Will Welcome Obama

While Germans still favor him over any Republican, their attitudes about the president are much less emotional than they were five years ago — and that can only be a good thing.

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Can the G8 Navigate Competing Visions for Food Security in Africa?

13 June 2013

Transparency through the release of the 2013 New Alliance Progress Report will build confidence behind the initiative. But global leaders will need to go further.

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In Gezi Park, the Seeds of a More Pluralistic Turkey Have Been Planted

12 June 2013

Gezi Park commune has provided a window into what Turkey could become if tolerance and social engagement continue.

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G8 Should Focus on Improving Governance in the Middle East

11 June 2013

The stability of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will no doubt be on the minds of G8 leaders as they meet in Northern Ireland.

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Testing Russia at the G8

11 June 2013

During the first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was not clear that Russia would be invited to join what was then the G7 because its power in the international economy did not merit the leadership and governance role that membership entailed.

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Is the G8 Still Relevant?

11 June 2013

Doha may have failed as a trade negotiation, but the drive for more open and transparent trading rules doesn’t need to end with it.

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Hope for the Balkans, Including From an Unlikely Place

10 June 2013

The inaugural Transatlantic Leadership Seminar visited many places, with participants learning from leaders who are striving to create democratic and prosperous futures for their nations, two decades after the wars that ended Yugoslavia.

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We Never Learn: Syrian Lessons from Bosnia

10 June 2013

Srebrenica, 26 May 2013. I am staring at almost eight thousand tombstones. Males between twelve and eighty years old have been massacred because they believed in the wrong God. It all happened in a few days. We all know the story of Srebrenica, but when you stand in the middle of the graveyard, it feels [...]

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An “Arab Formula” for Turkey

04 June 2013

The demonstrations that have taken Turkey and the world by surprise over the past few days do look like an “Arab Spring.”

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Erdoğan Is Losing the Forest for the Trees

03 June 2013

What started as a protest against a plan to turn Istanbul’s Gezi Park into a shopping mall has morphed into something far bigger: large-scale demonstrations bringing hundreds of thousands to the streets in cities across Turkey.

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Decoding Erdoğan’s Visit to Washington

18 May 2013

The visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the United States has been animated by the deepening crisis in Syria and its mounting costs for Turkey and the region.

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