Commentaries
An Alliance of Democracies: with the US or for the US?
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for an “a new grouping of like-minded nations, a new alliance of democracies” against China. The US has raised this idea before: […]
European defence / NATO
Publications
(Nuclear) sharing is caring. European views on NATO nuclear deterrence and the German nuclear sharing debate
We highlight the chapter of Alexander Mattelaer. He answers the following questions: How does your government view the importance of nuclear deterrence and NATO’s nuclear sharing agreement for its own […]
Commentaries
The emergence of cyber diplomacy in an increasingly post-liberal cyberspace
Behind some recent discussions on internet governance, there is a broader contest for power and values in cyberspace. This contest is a sign of the so-called “post-liberal order”. As a […]
Other publications
Power and diplomacy in the post-liberal cyberspace
It is becoming widely accepted that we have transitioned, or are now transitioning, from an international liberal order to a different reality. Whether that reality is different solely in terms […]
Weaker together or weaker apart? Great power relations after the coronavirus
The coronavirus is a symmetrical threat: it hits everybody. How hard it hits depends in the first instance on the power of each and every state: the resilience of its […]
Commentaries
Give us the real PESCO, please!
With 47 projects adopted, there is a lot of activity in Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the European Union’s mechanism for defence cooperation. However, the current projects do not effectively address […]
Events
Belgium in the UN Security Council 2019-2020 Webinar 3: Children in Armed Conflict
Watch the recording on YouTube. Every year the FPS Foreign Affairs, the Egmont Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent University, organise a conference on Belgian foreign and defence […]
Belgium in the UN Security Council 2019-2020 Webinar 2: The Security Situation in the Sahel
Watch the recording on YouTube Every year the FPS Foreign Affairs, the Egmont Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent University, organise a conference on Belgian foreign and defence […]
Belgium in the UN Security Council 2019-2020 Webinar 1: Multilateralism and the Security Council
Watch the recording on YouTube. Every year the FPS Foreign Affairs, the Egmont Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent University, organise a conference on Belgian foreign and […]
A crisis of governance: xenophobic violence in South Africa
The Egmont Institute has the pleasure to invite you to an Africa Lunch Meeting Webinar on 18 November with Loren B. Landau, Professor of Migration and Development at the University […]