The future of the GX system and global governance
Edited by Peter Debaere, Dries Lesage & Jan Wouters. Articles The Future of the Gx System and Global Governance: An Introduction, by Peter Debaere, Dries Lesage & Jan Wouters Governing […]
EU and strategic partners
Publications
Commentaries
How Europe can use the AIIB to influence China
EU member states can use the China-initiated organization to promote their standards for development financing and perhaps even to pursue geopolitical interests in Asia. This blogpost is a product of […]
Other publications
Strategic Autonomy and the Defence of Europe. Country Study: Belgium
in: H.-P. Bartels, A.M. Kellner and U. Optenhögel, eds., Strategic Autonomy and the Defence of Europe: On the Road to a European Army, Bonn: Dietz, pp. 80-89. This book offers insights into […]
New multilateral structures: The rise of an alternative order or more of the same?
With the global governance system becoming increasingly unrepresentative of the changed realities of the twenty-first century, the emerging powers have been all the more proactive in seeking to reshape it. […]
The European Investment Bank: an overlooked (f)actor in EU external action?
This Egmont paper aims to 1) explore the extent to which the EIB already delivers, through its operations outside the Union, on the priorities guiding EU external action and 2) […]
EU-South Korea security relations: The current state of play
The EU and South Korea both face challenging circumstances in the domestic and international arenas. The EU is focused on Eurozone instability, terrorism, political extremism, revisionist Russia, and crises in […]
Events
Sharing past and future: strengthening African-European connections
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) is set to re-open its doors in December 2018. To mark this occasion, the museum and the Egmont – Royal Institute for International […]
The Middle Kingdom and the Middle East
How the geopolitical competition in the Middle East and the Gulf plays out is of crucial importance for the security of Europe. The US and Russia are key strategic actors […]
100 years of modern Georgia: an interrupted history
«Si quelques années avant la guerre, des militants informés des choses internationales, pénétrés des idées fondamentales du marxisme, s’étaient posé la question de savoir quelle serait la première capitale où […]
Power and Power Games Europe, the US, China and Russia
Our concerns about the foreign policy of the US, the ambition of China, and the strategy of Russia demonstrate that History certainly has not come to an end. We are […]