Commentaries
Will the foreign fighters issue ever end?
Rik Coolsaet questions the supposed socio-economic root causes of the phenomenon of foreign fighters. This commentary appeared in European Geostrategy on 19 April 2015.
Commentaries
Rik Coolsaet questions the supposed socio-economic root causes of the phenomenon of foreign fighters. This commentary appeared in European Geostrategy on 19 April 2015.
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In this commentary, Valérie Arnould reflects on the implications of the recent changes to the electoral law in Burkina Faso for the country’s transition process. She cautions that a desire […]
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The “De Morgen” Newspaper chose Sven Biscop as defence minister in a hypothetical government of technocrats for Belgium. But Belgian and EU policy needs to become more political, not more […]
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Sven Biscop points out that the EU is caught between member states that do not have a strategy and those that do but who do not have the means to […]
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“What should the EU do?” This is how most, if not all, policymakers in the Belgian foreign ministry react when a crisis occurs in, say, Ukraine or Syria. But as […]
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As China announced the launch of its new development bank, the AIIB, the lack of debate in many EU capitals – and at the EU level itself – was particularly striking. Is […]