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Why Belgium is not Europe’s jihadi base
International experts and journalists have resorted to Belgium-bashing and finger-pointing. They call Belgium a “failed state,” our police and intelligence services “incompetent.”
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International experts and journalists have resorted to Belgium-bashing and finger-pointing. They call Belgium a “failed state,” our police and intelligence services “incompetent.”
The EU’s effective multilateralism doctrine is hardly a defining characteristic of the international system of today. While established multilateral structures are far from reflective of the realities of the twenty-first […]
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After the attacks in Brussels, investing in Europe is the only answer: European intelligence, European defence, European democracy, says Sven Biscop.
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In this final articke in a five-part series on defence and the EU Global Strategy, Luis Simón argues that any European strategy must not neglect the geopolitically relevant spaces in between […]
In today’s world, cooperation and competition co-exist. The same powers that work against each other in one case, are working together in the other. Is a value-based EU foreign policy […]
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In this fourth contribution in a five-part series on defence and the EU Global Strategy, Alexander Mattelaer looks at transatlantic burden-sharing and European defence.
Lunch debate with Prof.Dr. Luk Van Langenhove and former Minister-President Luc Van Den Brande and Marc Franco, Hon.Ambassador. Onze globaliserende wereld verkent zijn institutionele bedding. België is niet het enige […]
Egmont, the Royal Higher Institute for Defence and the International Institute for
Conference with Prof. Barry Posen (MIT). As the focus of American strategy is pivoting from Europa to Asia, the question is what the implications are for the European security architecture. […]
Asia is facing a great number of security challenges, traditional ones such as border disputes but also less traditional ones. Although some of these challenges can be addressed primarily and […]