Assessing the EU’s strategic partnerships in the UN system
In this Security Policy Brief, Thomas Renard and Bas Hooijmaaijers look at the relationship between the EU and its ten strategic partners in the UN system, focussing on the UNGA, […]
Publications
Het relaas van een turbulente relatie: de Congolees-Belgische betrekkingen
in Internationale Spectator, jg 65, nr.5, mei 2011, pp. 272-275. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Ontslagnemend Belgisch buitenlands beleid
Na de verkiezingen van juni 2007 verzeilde België in een bestuurlijk moeras. Aanhoudende disputen tussen Nederlandstalige en Franstalige partijen leidden tot een aanslepende regeringsvorming, die alle politieke energie opslorpte. Eerste […]
Pooling & sharing: from slow march to quick march?
On 23 May, the Ministers of Defence of the EU27 will assess the first outcome of the “Ghent Framework” for pooling & sharing of military capabilities. While some defence establishments […]
De wereld na Bin Laden
The death of Osama Bin Laden is a good new. But his role in Al Qaeeda was out since 2004(in Dutch) in De Standaard, 3 May 2011. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The treachery of strategies: a call for true EU strategic partnerships
In September 2010, the European Council discussed for the first time the European Union’s (EU) strategic partnerships, a foreign policy concept that was until then unknown to most people – […]