The fifth EU-South Africa summit held in Brussels on 18 September 2012 was marked by the partners’ recognition of their mutual difficulties: the enduring economic crisis in Europe and strong […]
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This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor. In the two […]
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The emergence of new powers fundamentally questions the traditional views on international relations, multilateralism or security as a range of countries now competes for regional and global leadership – economically, […]
The relationship between the EU and Russia – the ‘strategic partnership’, as it has been called – is of clear geopolitical and economic importance. The EU and Russia are the […]
The EU–Russia summit that took place on June 4 in St Petersburg met expectations for two reasons. Firstly, expectations prior to the summit were low: nobody was under any illusion […]
If relations between India and the European Union (EU) are a marriage of convenience, Brazil and the EU seem like a long-standing couple. The two partners continue to share strong […]
Given the importance of the EU, the United States and China for the global system what are the prospects for trilateral cooperation in different policy areas? It might have seemed […]
The Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels Academy for China and European Studies, Confucius Institute at Vrije Universiteit Brussel are co-organizing an international conference on The Role of […]
Taiwan is a sensitive issue in Chinese foreign policy. The One China Policy is one of the foundations for all major powers in the world to manage relationship with China. […]
Our guest speaker will be Dr Thomas Wilkins, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He will discuss strategic partnerships from a theoretical background (their place