Publications

Egmont Papers

n°36, March 2010:

The EU as a global actor in a multipolar world and multilateral 2.0 environment, Luk Van Langenhove
about the position of the EU in the world, changes in mulitlateral system...

 

n°35, Fearing a 'Shiite Octopus'. Sunni – Shi`a relations and the implications for Belgium and Europe, Jelle Puelings, Jan. 2010.

n°34: Europe Rediscovers Peacekeeping? Political and Military Logics in the 2006 UNIFIL Enhancement, Alexander Mattelaer, Oct. 2009.

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Studia Diplomatica

Vol. LXIII, n°1:

European Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon
on Lisbon Treaty, EU foreign policy, CSDP, EU-Russia gas trade, civ. crisis management, EU strategic culture.

 

Vol. LXII: n°4: The external dimension of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy - Proceedings of the conference held in Brussels on 28 january 2009.

Vol. LXII, n°3: Military crisis management: The challenge of inter-organizationalism.

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Recent Past events

• 12 July 2010: China and us, an Attempt to decode cultural divergences and their consequences on our relationship
  -Conference with Bernard Pierre, director of training and former Ambassador of Belgium to Beijing.
• 2 July 2010: Somalia's Prospects?
  -Africa Briefing.
• 30 June 2010: Presentation of the new book of Sven Biscop Europa: strategie voor een wereldmacht with Guy Verhostadt and Rik Coolsaet.
• 9 June 2010: Debating EU approaches to fighting terrorism - A role for CSDP?
  -Roundtable with Bruno Oliveira Martins (Visiting Fellow, Egmont) and Alistair Millar (Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation).

Other news

• On 26 July, Sven Biscop addressed the security dimension at a workshop on "The EU and Asia: Inter-regionalism and Asia-Europe Cooperation", hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai. On that occasion, he was officially awarded the title of Senior Research Associate of the Centre for European Studies at the Renmin University of China (CESRUC) in Beijing, which co-organized the workshop and where he has been a frequent guest lecturer.
• Egmont joined the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, contributing through joint research and events as well as exchange of faculty to the thematic cluster on "The EU and Canada as Global Actors: International Conflict Management and Security".
• At an expert seminar on Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence organized by the Belgian Presidency of the EU in the Royal Military Academy on 13 July 2010, Sven Biscop spoke in the last panel, which was chaired by Jo Coelmont, about the strengths and opportunities of the concept and its added value at the EU and the national level. In the run-up to the seminar, the EU Institute for Security studies published the views of Prof. Biscop and Brig-Gen. Coelmont as EUISS Opinion - Press release.
• Egmont has the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Dr. Tanguy Struye as a Senior Associate Fellow in its Security and Global Governance Programme. Teaching at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Prof. Struye will contribute to the Institute’s work in the area of the EU’s relations with the great powers and the changing geopolitics.
• On 29 June 2010 at UNRIC in Brussels, Brig-Gen (R) Jo Coelmont gave the lecture "Het belang van de niet-militaire aspecten van vredesoperaties" - Report.
• On 18 June 2010 at the graduation ceremony of the College of Europe in Bruges, Brig-Gen (R) Jo Coelmont on behalf of the Institute handed the first ever Egmont Award for the Best Thesis on the External Relations of the EU to Mr. Tobias Felix Franke, for his MA dissertation "Nosce Te Ipsum – Positioning the EU’s CSDP as a Regional Ordnungsmacht".
• On 10-13 May 2010 Jean-Christophe Hoste gave the lecture "Where was united Africa in the climate change negotiations?" at the conference: After the Financial Crisis, A Progressive Agenda for Africa organised by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Cape Town.
• On 12 May 2010 Thomas Renard gave a speech on the EU-South Africa strategic partnership at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Brussels.
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