Books
The Evolution of Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11
What is counter-terrorism? While the answer to this question may seem self-evident, it has become quite complicated to define the contours of a field that has expanded dramatically in the […]
Belgian diplomacy
Publications
Commentaries
The Belgian Recovery and Resilience Plan: A fresh impetus to prepare the skills of tomorrow’s workforce?
In the context of a fast recovery, training policy is one of the labour market instruments with the most positive effect on employment, but it is also a very expensive […]
Other publications
Belgium: a pandemic between two political crises
To better understand how the pandemic has so far affected Europe’s democracies, the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN) has analysed 19 succinct national perspectives. We asked our EPIN partners: what […]
What Belgium Can Do: Proposals for the National Security Strategy
Belgium has never had a National Security Strategy: a single strategic vision outlining how to safeguard its national interests from external threats and challenges and to prevent the exploitation of […]
Souveraineté et indépendance nationale. La Belgique et le transfert de souveraineté vers des organisations internationales
Contrairement à un mythe largement répandu, la Belgique n’a pas toujours été un ardent défenseur ni du transfert de souveraineté vers de organisations internationales, ni – et en particulier – […]
Dealing with Russia: Towards a coherent Belgian policy
Belgo-Russia relations are mired in paradox. For several years, the relationship between the Russian Federation on the one hand and the EU and NATO on the other has been characterized […]
Events
Annual Conference on Belgian Foreign Policy
FULLY BOOKED 9.00-9.30: Opening session Welcome address: Hugues Chantry, DG Egmont Theodora Gentzis, President of the Management Committee of the MFA 9.30-11.00 Panel 1: The Conference on the Future […]
La diplomatie d’hier à demain
Watch the recording of the webinar on YouTube. Depuis trente ans, le paysage politique mondial bouge : l’Union européenne s’élargit, l’équilibre mondial et l’influence des pays évoluent, les acteurs multinationaux […]
Belgium in the UN Security Council 2019-2020 Webinar 3: Children in Armed Conflict
Watch the recording on YouTube. Every year the FPS Foreign Affairs, the Egmont Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent University, organise a conference on Belgian foreign and defence […]
Belgium in the UN Security Council 2019-2020 Webinar 1: Multilateralism and the Security Council
Watch the recording on YouTube. Every year the FPS Foreign Affairs, the Egmont Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent University, organise a conference on Belgian foreign and […]