I like being a policy-oriented academic: you meet lots of interesting people and you are invited to interesting meetings, so you can really contribute to the debate. Some actors may […]
Europe’s efforts to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for Iran alive hardly seem effective. On 28 June 2019, during a meeting of the Joint Commission of JCPOA, […]
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Recent media coverage about the nuclear role of Kleine Brogel airbase has drawn attention to Belgium’s role in NATO’s nuclear deterrence. Meaningful political debate thereof needs to carefully consider the […]
These last few years the EU has taken considerable steps to give more substance to its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Nearly all the pieces of the puzzle are […]
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Personal recommendation: A few years ago I stumbled on a little book in the Georgetown University bookshop written by former Yale University Professor Richard Nisbett, published by the Free Press […]
On 2 August both the US and the Russian Federation will no longer be restrained by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987). Early this century it gradually became clear […]