The Great Powers have their ways
How will the great powers behave? That is what determines the future world order – or the absence of order. Could it be that China and the EU have found […]
Publications
A World in Flux
Scholars and pundits alike have been qualifying our times as of “transition and turbulence”, “disorder” and “strategic unease”. Other concepts that recur in discussions on the present state of the […]
Towards a Belgian position on Brexit: Actively reconciling national and European interests
The prospect of seeing the United Kingdom (UK) leave the European Union (EU) presents Belgium with its most significant foreign policy challenge in decades. Caught between its traditional support for […]
An uphill struggle? Towards coordinated EU engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s 19th Party Congress unexpectedly amended the party’s constitution with a pledge to “pursue the Belt and Road Initiative”. This further elevates the status of president Xi’s heavily promoted foreign […]
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Military factors in the MENA Region: Challenging trends
Although the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has witnessed a long series of conflicts since the end of the Second World War, it is now in the unprecedented […]
The EU Global Strategy: Implications for Russia
Bringing together contributions from Egmont and the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the report “The EU Global Strategy: Implications for Russia” addresses key bilateral issues, such as resilience […]