Commentaries
No prevention without defence
If one does not prevent conflicts from escalating, one will have to suffer the consequences, as with the refugee crisis today. At given times military interventions are the indispensable catalyst […]
Commentaries
If one does not prevent conflicts from escalating, one will have to suffer the consequences, as with the refugee crisis today. At given times military interventions are the indispensable catalyst […]
Other publications
In this article, published in Global Affairs, the new journal of the European International Studies Association (which he co-edits), Sven Biscop proposes ideas on Europe’s military level of ambition and […]
Commentaries
The recent annual EU-Japan summit (29 May) confirmed progress in the parallel negotiations over a free trade and a political agreement. It also confirmed the EU’s willingness to deepen and […]
Is “hybrid” about to replace “comprehensive” as the favourite container notion of the Brussels foreign policy community? They might not be so different, in fact. Both a hybrid and a […]
Commentaries
During Prime Minister Abe’s state visit to Washington, Japan and the United States made international headlines after revealing renewed joint defence guidelines that no longer
Studia Diplomatica
Articles The growth of transatlantic security cooperation by Frédéric Mérand and Ruben Zaiotti A strategic assessment of NATO’s SMART defence and its implication for Canada by Ian Wood
In view of Donald Trump’s statement during the US election campaign that “NATO may be obsolete”, it seems that High Representative Federica Mogherini was prescient when writing the objective of […]
The NATO Summit in Warsaw in July will be one of the key events of the strategic year 2016. And yet, we already know now that not all key issues […]
The question whether the UK will remain in the EU or leave it one of the most daunting challenges that European countries will have to face this year. The aim […]
Russia’s military actions in 2014 and 2015, particularly in Crimea, Ukraine, and Syria, have upended expectations among NATO members about their security and the future course of NATO-Russian relations. In […]