How German Marshal Fund sees the Middle East post 9/11

After reading Jahanbegloo's interview after his release, I tried to find out what kind of politics the German Marshal Fund holds. But I found nothing substantial on Wikipedia.

However, I came across to a paper titled "A Transatlantic Strategy to Promote Democratic Development in the Broader Middle East", written by Ronald D. Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels, Larry Diamond and Michael McFaul, senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and professor (by courtesy) and associate professor of political science at Stanford University, respectively, and Mark Leonard director of foreign policy studies at the Centre for European Reform in London.

The following excerpt could shed some light on how they see the Middle East:

Since the September 11 attacks, a number of U.S. and European strategists have stepped forward to call for a fundamental paradigm shift in how the United States and Europe engage the broader Middle East—that wide swath of the globe, predominantly Muslim and overwhelmingly authoritarian, stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan. The West, they have argued, must abandon the chimera of stability offered by an autocratic status quo and instead put the weight of Western influence on the side of positive democratic change. Washington and Brussels must join forces in a partnership with reformers in the region to promote democratic transformation and human development as an antidote to those radical ideologies and terrorist groups that seek to destroy Western society and values.

Such calls have been driven by a new analysis of what ails the region and how it has fueled the terrorist threat facing the West today: an explosive mix of humiliation, hatred, intolerance, and intense anti-U.S. and anti-Western sentiment that is crystallizing into a set of extremist ideologies that twists and mobilizes religion and uses terrorism to pursue its goals. It is brewing amid a context of political oppression, economic stagnation, population booms, and pervasive inequality and injustice. The United States and Europe will not be safe from the terrorism, political instability, illegal migration, or organized crime this region is spawning unless each shifts its policies to attempt to get to the root of these ills. This endeavor will simultaneously require both political freedom and human development—the kind that generates broad, sustainable mprovements in people’s livelihoods, skills, dignity, and opportunities.