Commentaries
NATO: Life after (Brain) Death
NATO is braindead, according to French President Macron. It could have been worse: he could have said that a certain important NATO leader is braindead (and more people would probably […]
EU strategy and foreign policy
Publications
Commentaries
Nasty weather conditions for NATO’s 2019 leaders meeting
The 29 Heads of State and Government of NATO will hold a Leaders Meeting in London on 4 December. Note that it is only a “meeting” and not a regular […]
Commentaries
The Brexit Circus, the Hungarian Arena, and the Great Power Game
As a Belgian, I welcome Britain into the club of countries whose domestic politics are a source of bemused entertainment for the rest of the world. I understand that as […]
The EU or NATO: That is not the question
The European security architecture does not resemble a Le Corbusier or Oscar Niemeyer design. It is not a neatly planned whole in which every component elegantly and effectively fulfils a […]
Commentaries
Turkey and Syria: absent a European strategy, blame Trump
The European Union and its Member States blame US President Donald Trump for withdrawing American troops from Northern Syria, thus paving the way for Turkey to send its armed forces […]
Articulating the logic of nuclear-sharing
NATO’s nuclear-sharing arrangements often get bad press. This is remarkable given the fact that they have demonstrably contributed to (a) countering the proliferation of nuclear arsenals in Europe, (b) fostering […]
Events
President Trump’s Transformation of American Foreign Policy: A Washington Insider’s View
With Kenneth R. Weinstein, President & CEO of the Hudson Institute.
Autonomy and Strategy: what should Europe want?
The 2016 European Global Strategy (EUGS) introduced the objective of strategic autonomy. But what exactly does the EU want to be autonomous for? The debate so far has focused on […]
Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union
The Egmont Institute organised an Egmont Working Lunch on 8 March 2019 with Prof. Dr. Alexander Mattelaer and Prof. Dr. Beatrice Heuser and closing remarks by Johan Verbeke. Are Europeans […]
The Rules-Based Order: Rise and Fall?
Seminar with: –Prof. Dr. Hanns W. Maull, who recently edited a prestigious volume on The Rise and Decline of the Post-Cold War International Order (Oxford University Press, November 2018) –Prof. […]