Raiders of the lost art: strategy-making in Europe
Have Europeans lost the art of making grand strategy? In a reflection process initiated by Sweden, Poland, Italy and Spain, they are invited to rediscover it and draft a “European […]
EU strategy and foreign policy
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The UK and European Defence: leading or leaving?
The UK, with France, initiated the European, today Common, Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) in 1998–9. A strong consensus on the need to address capability shortfalls, which the UK accepted […]
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Permanent structured cooperation light: less formal, not less necessary
The complex nature of the security challenges and the rampant global financial crisis has not left the realm of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) unaffected. Amidst these unstable conditions, […]
Studia Diplomatica
Vol. LXV, Issue 3 (2012)
– EU trade policy and the European Security Strategy. Speaking the same language in different worlds, Jan Orbie, Lotte Drieghe and Fabienne Bossuyt – A “force for good”? External images […]
The EU’s sanctions against Syria: conflict management by other means
Since May 2011, the EU has launched one of its most far reaching and sophisticated sanctions operations in support of the protests against the current regime in Syria. The present […]
Actualiteit Syrië: “Do something General!”
Op het ogenblik dat dit artikel wordt geschreven, lijkt de crisis in Syrië af te stevenen naar een zoveelste hoogtepunt. Er wordt gevochten in de hoofdstad Damascus en in Aleppo. […]
Events
Diplomacy at the service of Peace
By Staffan de Mistura, Former Under-Secretary-General, UN Special Envoy for Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon He will share with us his experience as special UN envoy in his successive peace missions […]
Should the EU make foreign policy-decisions by majority voting?
Lunch lecture with Leonard Schuette, the Clara Marina O’Donnell Fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London. As a result of the return of power politics to international politics, […]
EU Strategic Autonomy: which military level of ambition
Visit of the European Studies Programme of the United States Army War College (Pennsylvania) to attend a lecture by Jo Coelmont on EU Strategic Autonomy: which military level of ambition?
Russia and Europe in the context of global migration (fully booked!)
Fully booked. Over the centuries and millennia, migration has shaped the world’s history and geography. However, never before has it been so prominent in people’s preoccupations and on political agendas […]