Searching for a Brussels Machiavelli
Neither a Machiavelli or a Bismarck has yet emerged from Brussels but it is time for the EU to start thinking about being a power on the world stage. A […]
Publications
Strategy wanted: the European union and strategic partnerships
The European Union (EU) has nine strategic partnerships with third countries, but the rationale behind these is far from evident, and the implementation questionable. Therefore, the raison d’être of these […]
Strategy and the importance of defence cooperation among EU member states
In the Royal Military Academy in Brussels on 13 July 2010 Jolyon Howorth gave the opening speech at a seminar on Permanent Structured Cooperation organized by the Belgian Presidency. This […]
Why the violence in Eastern Congo does’t stop
Koen Vlassenroot and Hans Hoebeke ask more pression to the government of RD Congo for stopping violations of human rights (In Dutch). in De Morgen, 30 Aug. 2010. (Photo credit: Themalau, Wikimedia Commons)
European studies discovers strategy
Sven Biscop shows modernised, broader definition of strategy allows for the useful application of the strategic perspective to the European Union, which has become an actor in its own right […]
Books
The Lord’s Resistance Army: myth and reality
The Lord’s Resistance Army is Africa’s most persistent and notorious ‘terrorist’ group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres […]