Is Putin Winning, or Is He Trying not to Lose?
Nobody is in doubt, if anybody ever was, that Russia remains a great power. That much the tense stand-off over Ukraine has demonstrated. Whether President Putin’s moves have earned Russia […]
European defence / NATO
Publications
The future of the Arctic region: what is at stake for Belgium?
The Arctic region is undergoing dramatic changes with multiple implications for the region and well-beyond, with profound geo-economic and geopolitical consequences. These major developments and especially the gravity of climate […]
Commentaries
Time for Europe to stand up to Putin
In Eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for war. The European countries should strengthen their deterrence capacity and put an end to their dependence on Russian gas. *****
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Euro-Atlantic Concerns regarding a US »Sole Purpose« Policy
The Belgian position on nuclear policy questions is generally framed as a dual track approach combining credible deterrence with the pursuit of détente. This harks back to the Harmel report […]
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Strategic autonomy: Not without integration
One dimension of strategic autonomy has been firmly decided upon since the EU created its Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999: the projection of military force outside the borders […]
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Inclusion is not enough to achieve gender and racial equality in global peace and security
The last twenty years have brought about a significant increase in the awareness of war practices that harm women, including rape and sexual abuse. However, focusing on women alone is […]
Events
U.S geopolitics and nuclear deterrence in the era of new great power competitions
The German Institute for International and Security Affairs – Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and the Egmont Institute organise an expert exchange on Peter Rudolf´s (Senior Fellow, SWP, Berlin) recently […]
Measuring transatlantic burden-sharing
In the run up to the NATO Brussels Summit, Egmont is teaming up with the Center for Strategic and International Studies to shed light on one of the most difficult […]
NATO-EU : An Alliance and a Union
NATO and the EU are often mentioned together. Officially, cooperation is said to be fine and even improving, covering more and more dimensions. Yet for decades now questions are also […]
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 […]