Research key topics

• European Security Strategy
• European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
• Europe and Emerging Powers
• International Terrorism
• Belgian Foreign and Security Policy
• Climate change: conflicts in Sub-Sahara Africa
• Energy and climate change
• European Institutions
• Financial Regulations
• Governance of natural resources, natural resources and conflict, artisanal (diamond) mining
• State reconstruction, fragile states
• Political and security developments in the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, the wider Great Lakes Region
• Strategic developments in Sub-Sahara Africa
• Security Sector Reform (SSR), DDR and armed group proliferation

European Security Strategy

• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposal and Western Reactions, Patrick Nopens, Security Policy Brief 3, Nov. 2009.
• The value of power, the power of values: a call for an EU Grand Strategy, Sven Biscop (ed.), Egmont Paper, n°33, Oct. 2009.
• Time for a European Union grand strategy, Sven Biscop, on the Blog Ideas on Europe - European Geostrategy, 18 Aug. 2009.
• A Shared Security Strategy for a Euro-Atlantic Partnership of Equals, Simon Serfaty and Sven Biscop, July 20, 2009 -- CSIS online Report.
• Odd Couple or Dynamic Duo? The EU and Strategy in Times of Crisis, Sven Biscop, in European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 14, 2009, No. 3, pp. 367-384.
• Europe: A time for strategy, Sven Biscop, Jolyon Howorth and Bastian Giegerich, Egmont Paper, n°27, Jan. 2009.
• The EU and the European Security Strategy. Forging a Global Europe, Sven Biscop, Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium and Jan Joel Andersson, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Sweden (eds.), 2008.
• La Stratégie européenne de sécurité : mettre en oeuvre l’approche holistique, Sven Biscop, in L’Europe de la défense : acteurs, enjeux et processus (Flyer + Bon de commande), Les Champs de Mars, n°19, Jan. 2008.
• De Europese Veiligheidsstrategie twee jaar later. Eerste balans van een integratieproject, Sven Biscop, in Atlantisch Perspectief 3, 2006.
• The Ambiguous Ambition. The Development of the EU Security Architecture, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the colloquium The EC/EU: A World Security Actor? An Assessment after 50 Years of the External Actions of the EC/EU, Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, 15 September 2006.
• Strategy or Stratagem? The European Security Strategy in Perspective, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the UACES 36th Annual Conference and 11th Research Conference. Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006.
• The European Security Strategy. A global agenda for positive power, Sven Biscop, August 2005. Order form.
• The European Security Strategy and the Neighbourhood Policy: A New Starting Point for a Euro-Mediterranean Security Partnership?, Sven Biscop, paper presented at EUSA Ninth Biennial International Conference, Austin, Texas, 31 March − 2 April 2005.
• An audit of European Strategy, Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop (ed.), Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Richard Gowan, Dr. Jean-Yves Haine, Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Major-General (RTD.) Kees Homan, Egmont Paper, n°3, Jan. 2005.
• The European Security Strategy and the Neighbourhood Policy: A New Starting Point for a Euro-Mediterranean Security Partnership?, Sven Biscop, in Fulvio Attinà & Rosa Rossi (eds.), European Neighbourhood Policy: Political, Economic and Social Issues. Catania, University of Catania, 2004, pp. 25-36. Beschikbaar op verzoek/disponible sur demande / available on request.
• A European Security Concept for the 21st Century, a Belgian contribution to a comprehensive EU Security Strategy, Egmont Paper, n°1, April 2004.
• The European Security Strategy. Implementing a Distinctive Approach to Security, Sven Biscop, published by the Royal Defence College (IRSD-KHID), Brussels, in Sécurité & Stratégie, Paper n°82, March 2004.
• The world is the stage: a global security strategy for the European Union, Sven Biscop, Rik Coolsaet, Notre Europe Policy Papers n°8, Dec. 2003 - see also: http://www.notre-europe.asso.fr.

European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy

• Défense Européenne, La Grande Illusion [European Defence, The Great Illusion] - Book Review, Thomas Renard, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 14:4 (2009), pp. 624-626.
• End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective, Jo Coelmont, Security Policy Brief 2, Nov. 2009.
• End-State Afghanistan, Jo Coelmont, in BEPA Monthly Brief, Issue 30, October 2009, pp. 13-15.
• Europe Rediscovers Peacekeeping? Political and Military Logics in the 2006 UNIFIL Enhancement, Alexander Mattelaer, Egmont Paper, n°34, Oct. 2009.
• Afghanistan: Strategic war for Europeans, existential conflict for NATO, Thomas Renard, on the Blog Ideas on Europe - European Geostrategy, 8 Sep. 2009.
• End-State Afghanistan, Jo Coelmont (ed.), Egmont Paper, n°29, March 2009.
• A Future Agenda for the European Security and Defence Policy, Fundación Alternativas, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Egmont, February 2009.
• De la maîtrise des armements à la non-prolifération: les nouveaux défis de la sécurité coopérative, Pierre-Etienne Champenois, Egmont Paper, n°26, Nov. 2008.
• The Strategic Planning of EU Military Operations - The Case of EUFOR TCHAD / RCA, Alexander Mattelaer, IES Working Paper 5, 2008. Alexander Mattelaer is writing a PhD on European security at the Institute for European Studies of the VUB, under the co-supervision of Sven Biscop of the Egmont Institute.
• Permanent Structured Cooperation and the Future of ESDP: Transformation and Integration, Sven Biscop, presented at the 3rd seminar in the EUISS-coordinated series on the European Security Strategy, Helsinki, 18-19 September 2008.
• The Lisbon Treaty and ESDP: transformation and integration, Sven Biscop and Franco Algieri (eds.), Egmont Paper, n°24, June 2008.
• Balancing Defence and Security Efforts with a Permanently Structured Scorecard, Patrick Wouters, Egmont Paper, n°23, June 2008.
• A Defining Commitment for the EU: Preventing (Even More) Conflict in the Middle East, Sven Biscop, in Anders Mellbourn and Peter Wallensteen (eds.), Third Parties and Conflict Prevention, Anna Lindh Books 2008 Edition, pp.77-93.
• Quel avenir pour la Politique européenne de voisinage ?, Jacques Keller-Noëllet and Sami Andoura, Working Paper European Affairs Program, n°3, 2008.
• European Defence in the Wake of the Lisbon Treaty, Bruno Angelet and Ioannis Vrailas, Egmont Paper, n°21, Mai 2008.
• Permanent Structured Cooperation and the Future of ESDP, Sven Biscop, Egmont Paper, n°20, April 2008.
• The EU and Euro-Mediterranean Security: A New Departure?, Sven Biscop, in Nicola Casarini and Costanze Musu (eds.), European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System. The Road Towards Convergence, August 2007.
• The EU and Conflict Peacebuilding in the DRC, Hans Hoebeke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°1, 2007: GLOBAL EUROPE - Special Issue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the 60th anniversary of the Institute.
• EU support to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rapports et Documents, Hans Hoebeke, Stéphanie Carette, Koen Vlassenroot, in L'action de l'Europe en Afrique, Centre d’analyse stratégique, Paris, 2007, pp.52-71.
• Europa en het Midden-Oosten: tijd voor leiderschap - naast of tegenover de Verenigde Staten, Sven Biscop, opiniestuk in Internationale Spectator, jg. 61, nr. 4, april 2007, pp. 218-219.
• The Democratic Republic of Congo and the evolution of ESD, in The EU's Africa Strategy: what are the lessons of the Congo Mission, SDA Discussion Paper, Security and Defence Agenda, Brussels, 2007, pp. 34-35.
• Europe and the Middle East: Time to resume Leadership - including towards the US, Sven Biscop, in CFSP Forum, Vol. 5, n°2, March 2007.
• For a ‘More Active’ EU in the Middle East. Transatlantic Relations and the Strategic Implications of Europe’s Engagement with Iran, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine, Sven Biscop, Egmont Paper, n°13, March 2007.
• The International Security Engagement of the European Union - Courage and Capabilities for a More Active EU Report from the 1P stP European Strategic Forum, Warsaw 2006, Sven Biscop, Internationale Politikanalyse - International Policy Analysis Unit, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, January 2007.
• Will the EU be able to reverse reconfirmation of patrimonial rule in the DRC?, Koen Vlassenroot, Hans Hoebeke, 19 December 2006.
• A New EU-Russia Agreement: Legal and Political Aspects, Sami Andoura and Marius Vahl, in The EU-Russia Review, Issue Two, November 2006, Editor Fraser Cameron.
• L’action de l’Europe en Afrique dans le domaine de la sécurité, Centre d’analyse stratégique (voir aussi: http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=489), Actes du colloque du 25 Octobre 2006.
• Understanding the new security environment: a comprehensive approach?, Sven Biscop, in KHID-IRSD, New answers to new threats? Our Western society facing new security challenges. Symposium proceedings 30 November 2005, IRSD-KHID, Brussel, 2006, pp. 13-17.
• NATO, ESDP and the RIGA Summit: no transformation without re-equilibration, Sven Biscop, Egmont Paper, n°11, 24 May 2006.
• E Pluribus Unum? Military integration in the European Union, Sven Biscop, Egmont Paper, n°7, May 2005.
• Security in the 21st Century: EU and UN Approaches, Valérie Arnould, paper presented to the Japan-EU Think Tank Roundtable on Next steps in Global Governance, EPC-NIRA-Japan Foundation, 13-15 January 2005, Tokyo. (See also EPC Issue Paper n°24).
• Able and Willing? Assessing the EU's Capacity for Military Action, Sven Biscop, in European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 9, No. 9, 2004, pp. 509-527. Beschikbaar op verzoek/disponible sur demande /available on request:
• GLOBAL EUROPE Report 1: Effective Multilateralism Europe, Regional Security and a Revitalised UN, edited by Espen Barth Eide. Contributors: Martin Ortega, Valérie Arnould, Sven Biscop, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Richard Gowan.
  The Foreign Policy Centre, The British Council, The European Commission, in association with Wilton Park, published by The Foreign Policy Centre, Dec. 2004.
• European Security: What, Why, When, How ?, Rik Coolsaet, opening lecture given at the Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 7 October 2003.
• Staying on Course − the Quadrilateral Defence Summit and the European Security and Defence Policy in the wake of '9/11' and Iraq, Sven Biscop, June 2003.

Europe and Emerging Powers

• Strategisch partnerschap tussen de EU en de BRICs: waar is de strategie?, Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard, in Internationale Spectator, Oktober 2009 - 63(10), pp. 514-516.
• A BRIC in the World: Emerging Powers, Europe, and the Coming Order, Thomas Renard, Oct. 2009.
• The EU's Strategic Partnerships with the BRIC: Where's the Strategy?, Sven Biscop and Thomas Renard, in BEPA Monthly Brief, issue 29, September 2009, pp. 6-8.
• The Coming Order: Strategic and Geopolitical Impacts of the Economic Crisis, Thomas Renard, in World Politics Review, 14 april 2009.
• EU and China: Partners in Effective Multilateralism, Sven Biscop, Liselotte Odgaard, in David Kerr and Liu Fei (eds.), The International Politics of EU-China Relations, British Academy Occasional Papers number 10, 2008.
• The EU and China: Partners in Effective Multilateralism?, Liselotte Odgaard, Sven Biscop, paper presented at the conference on the International Politics of EU-China Relations sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy, 20-21 April 2006.

International terrorism

• Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge in Europe, Rik Coolsaet, Ghent University, Belgium and Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium (ed.), Feb. 2008. More info, see flyer. Additional information about this book, including the list of contributors and the contents, can be found in the attached flyer. Orders can be send via
  https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0 7546 7217 4
• Un climat de terreur : impacts potentiels du changement climatique sur le terrorisme, Thomas Renard, in Défense et Sécurité Internationale (DSI), Hors-Série n°8, octobre-novembre 2009.
• Europol report describes Afghanistan-Pakistan connection to trends in European Terrorism, Thomas Renard, in Terrorism Monitor, Vol VII, n°12 (8 May 2009).
• Djihad en Allemagne: La Connexion Ouzbèke, Les Cahiers du RMES, volume 5, numéro 2, hiver 2008-2009.
• Radicalisation and Europe's counter-terrorism strategy, Rik Coolsaet, The Transatlantic Dialogue on Terrorism - CSIS/Clingendael, The Hague, December 8-9, 2005.
• Between al-Andalus and a failing integration Europe's pursuit of a long-term counterterrorism strategy in the post-al-Qaeda era, Rik Coolsaet, Egmont Paper, n°5, 18 April 2005.
• Al-Qaeda tussen mythen en realiteit, Rik Coolsaet, in Internationale Spectator, jg. 58, nr. 11, november 2004, pp. 523-530.
• L'Union européenne face aux nouveaux défis du terrorisme, sous la direction de Fr. Dehousse, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LVII, n°4-5, 2004.

Belgian Foreign and Security Policy

• Belgium in the UN Security Council. Reflections on the 2007-2008 Membership, Jan Wouters, Edith Drieskens and Sven Biscop (eds.), August 2009.
• Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII: 2009, Special issue: La Belgique et sa politique étrangère. België en zijn buitenlandse politiek. Anno 2008.
• Belgium and Counterterrorism Policy in the Jihadi Era (1986-2007), Rik Coolsaet and Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Egmont Paper, n°15, Sept. 2007.
• La contribution militaire belge à la Politique Européenne de Sécurité et de Défense (Fr) -
  De militaire bijdrage van België aan het Europees veiligheids- en defensiebeleid (Nl), Egmont Paper, n°14, June 2007.
• Eb en vloed in 60 jaar Nederlands-Belgische betrekkingen, Rik Coolsaet, in Internationale Spectator, jg. 60, nr. 11, november 2006, pp. 585-589.

Climate change: conflicts in Sub-Sahara Africa

• Climate change and Security, Conference Report, CERI, Paris - 20 Jan. 2009, Jean-Christophe Hoste, 26 March 2009 - Report (EN) - Rapport (FR).

Energy and climate change

• Climate change and Security, Conference Report, CERI, Paris - 20 Jan. 2009, Jean-Christophe Hoste, 26 March 2009 - Report (EN) - Rapport (FR).
• Skating on thin ice: Europe's internal climate policy and its position in the world, Louise van Schaik and Karel Van Hecke, Working Paper European Affairs Program, Dec. 2008.
• Governance of the EU: The Reform Debate on European Agencies Reignited, Sami Andoura and Peter Timmerman, EPIN Working Paper, n°19, 14 Oct. 2008.
• The Kyoto Policy of Belgium, Karel Van Hecke and Tania Zgajewski, Egmont Paper, n°18, Feb. 2008.
• The Coming Energy Crash and its Impact on the European Union, Franklin Dehousse, Egmont Paper, n°17, Feb. 2008.
• The International Nexus between Energy and Climate Change. Presentation at an international conference: Workshop or Talking Shop? Globalization, Security and the Legitimacy of the G8, organised by the EGMONT Institute, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and G8 Research Group, Brussels, Niels Bekkhus, 24-25 May 2007.
• Towards a real new energy policy for the European Union ?, Franklin Dehousse, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• The Internal European Energy Market, Franklin Dehousse, Sami Andoura and Renaud Dehin, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• Security of supply and the external dimension of a European energy policy?, Sami Andoura, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• Coal power in the European Union, Karel Van Hecke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• Nuclear energy in the European Union, Karel Van Hecke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• Energy and climate change in the European Union, Franklin Dehousse and Niels Boutroue Bekkhus, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
• The Stern Review and the question of energy and climate change in the European Union, Niels Boutroue Bekkhus, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?

European institutions

• Governance of the EU: The Reform Debate on European Agencies Reignited, Sami Andoura and Peter Timmerman, EPIN Working Paper, n°19, 14 Oct. 2008.
• A quoi sert l'Union Européenne au 21ème siècle?, Philippe de Schoutheete, discours donné lors de la Conférence inaugurale des cours d’été du Mouvement européen basque. Saint Sébastien, 7 juillet 2008.
• Concurrence et différenciation des présidences : Les nouveaux défis institutionnels, Philippe de Schoutheete, intervention lors d’un colloque sur la présidence, à l’Institut d’Etudes européennes de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, 29 April 2008.
• The Treaty of Lisbon: Implementing the Institutional Innovations, Joint Study CEPS, EGMONT and EPC, Nov. 2007.
• The legal personality of the European Union, in Philippe de Schoutheete and Sami Andoura, Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°1, 2007.
• The Evolution of Intergovernmental Cooperation in the European process, Philippe de Schoutheete, in Challenge Europe (Feb. 2007), the online magazine of the European Policy Center, 21 Nov. 2006.
• Tania Zgajewski, The Lisbon strategy: what's wrong?, 03 May 2006.
• Scenarios for escaping the constitutional impasse, Philippe de Schoutheete, in Europe's World, summer 2006.
• L'Avenir du Traité Constitutionnel, Philippe de Schoutheete, in Annales d'Etudes Européennes de l'UCL, Vol.8, 2005-2006.
• Les nouvelles perspectives de la coopération Schengen : le traité de Prüm, Franklin Dehousse and Diane Sifflet, April 2006.
• Assessment of the cooperation between EU and Russia, Sami Andoura, March 2006.
• The Lisbon strategy: Which failure? Whose failure? and Why?, Tania Zgajewski and Kalila Hajjar, in Egmont Paper, n°6, 22 March 2005.
• What Prospects for the European Constitutional Treaty?, in EPIN Working Paper, n°12, Jan. 2005. Contribution from Dr. Annabelle Littoz-Monnet and Kalila Hajjar.
• The results of the Intergovernmental Conference. An Assessment in the Light of the Convention's Draft, Franklin Dehousse, Wouter Coussens, Jordi Garcia and Pierre Van Den Brule, 18 Aug. 2004.
• Le Traité constitutionnel de la Convention pour l'Europe : un nouveau pas pour l'intégration européenne?, Franklin Dehousse and Wouter Coussens, Courrier hebdomadaire n°1808-1809 du CRISP, 2003.
• La convention sur le futur de l'Europe: un état des lieux, Franklin Dehousse and Wouter Coussens, in Journal des Tribunaux, 29 March 2003.
• The Perils of a European Constitution, Franklin Dehousse and Wouter Coussens, Sept. 2002.
  A Constitution of the European Union. Basic Treaty, Franklin Dehousse and Wouter Coussens, Sept. 2002.
  (Prepared in collaboration with the EPC (www.epc.eu) and the Collège européen Miguel Servet).

Financial Regulations

• The stability and growth Pact has it a future?, Tania Zgajewski and Kalila Hajjar, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LVII, n°6, 2004 (published in Nov. 2005).
• EU funding: it's all about give and take..., Wouter Coussens, in European Voice, 15-21 July 2004.
• The Commission's propositions for the enlargement negotiations on agriculture, structural funds and the budget: an analysis, Franklin Dehousse and Wouter Coussens, 24 Feb. 2002.

Governance of natural resources, natural resources and conflict, artisanal (diamond) mining

• From conflict to development diamonds: the Kimberley process, and Africa's artisanal diamond mines, Steven Van Bockstael and Koen Vlassenroot, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII: 2009, n°2.
• Artisanal diamond mining. Perspectives and challenges, Koen Vlassenroot and Steven Van Bockstael (eds.), Nov. 2008. Flyer - order form.

Fragile States and State reconstruction

• Fragile states and the international response: in pursuit of security or development?, Koen Vlassenroot and Hans Hoebeke, Africa Policy Brief 1, Sept. 2009.
• Fragile states and the international response: in pursuit of security or development?, Koen Vlassenroot and Hans Hoebeke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII: 2009, n°2.
• Fragile statehood in Africa: a useful concept for action?, Hans Hoebeke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXII: 2009, n°2.
• Fragile Statehood in Africa: A useful paradigm for action?, Conference Report, Observatoire de l'Afrique, EGMONT, August 2008.

Political and security developments in the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, the wider Great Lakes Region

• Reconfiguring local political orders ? Rural militias and governance in eastern DR Congo, paper presented by Koen Vlassenroot at ‘Rebel Governance Conference’, Yale University, 2-4 Oct. 2009.
• ‘Les Baronies du Désordre’, The politics of post-transition in eastern DR Congo, paper presented by Koen Vlassenroot at Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, New York, 1 Oct. 2009.
• Monsieur le Président vous n’avez pas d’armée. Evaluation de la reforme du secteur de sécurité et son impact sur les provinces du Kivus, Koen Vlassenroot, Hans Hoebeke et Henri Boshoff, dans Réforme au Congo (RDC) Attentes et désillusions, sous la direction de Theodore Trefon, 17 Sept. 2009 - Download the summary - Book orders.
• Beyond Kinshasa: Defining the Issues, paper presented by Koen Vlassenroot at Roundtable on Great Lakes/Greater Congo Issues, Outreach, Washington, 29 Sept. 2009.
• Regional integration and security in Central Africa - Assessment and perspectives 10 years after the revival, Angela Meyer, Egmont Paper, n°24, Dec. 2008.
• Politics of regional integration in Central Africa, Thomas Stevens, Hans Hoebeke and Koen Vlassenroot, in Chrysantus Ayangafac (ed.), Political Economy of Regionalisation in Central Africa, ISS Monograph Series No 155, Nov. 2008.
• Assessing Security Sector Reform and its Impact on the Kivu Provinces, Hans Hoebeke, Henri Boshoff and Koen Vlassenroot, ISS Situation Report, 26 Nov. 2008.
• Peace in the Kivu’s? An analysis of the Nairobi and Goma Agreements, Henri Boshoff and Hans Hoebeke, ISS Situation Report, 30 July 2008.
• La République Démocratique du Congo et ses voisins - Les défis de l'intégration régionale en Afrique Centrale : Report of the conference 12 Dec. 2007 -- Speeches available.
• De Democratische Republiek Congo: tussen neo-patrimonialisme en wederopbouw, Hans Hoebeke, Koen Vlassenroot, in Internationale Spectator, Jg 61, nr 5, mei 2007, pp. 248-251.
• The EU and Conflict Peacebuilding in the DRC, Hans Hoebeke, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n°1, 2007: GLOBAL EUROPE - Special Issue on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the 60th anniversary of the Institute.
• EU support to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rapports et Documents, Hans Hoebeke, Stéphanie Carette, Koen Vlassenroot, in L'action de l'Europe en Afrique, Centre d’analyse stratégique, Paris, 2007, pp.52-71.
• The Democratic Republic of Congo and the evolution of ESD, in The EU's Africa Strategy: what are the lessons of the Congo Mission, SDA Discussion Paper, Security and Defence Agenda, Brussels, 2007, pp. 34-35.
• Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX: 2007, n°3: Peace and security in Central Africa. Interventional intervention in Africa. NATO and ESDP.
• Will the EU be able to reverse reconfirmation of patrimonial rule in the DRC?, Koen Vlassenroot, Hans Hoebeke, 19 Dec. 2006.
• L’action de l’Europe en Afrique dans le domaine de la sécurité, Centre d’analyse stratégique (voir aussi: http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=489), Actes du colloque du 25 Oct. 2006.
• The Politics of Transition in the DRC, Hans Hoebeke, Africa Policy & Research notes, n°1, IRRI-KIIB, 18 Oct. 2006.

Security Sector Reform (SSR), DDR, armed group proliferation

• The logics of mobilisation: The proliferation of armed groups in South Kivu, paper presented by Koen Vlassenroot at the Seminar ‘The Post-Conflict State in the DRC’, Egmont/ISS, Pretoria, 24-25 August 2009.
• Monsieur le Président vous n’avez pas d’armée. Evaluation de la reforme du secteur de sécurité et son impact sur les provinces du Kivus, Koen Vlassenroot, Hans Hoebeke et Henri Boshoff, dans Réforme au Congo (RDC) Attentes et désillusions, sous la direction de Theodore Trefon, 17 Sept. 2009 - Download the summary - Book orders.
• Assessing Security Sector Reform and its Impact on the Kivu Provinces, Hans Hoebeke, Henri Boshoff and Koen Vlassenroot, ISS Situation Report, 26 Nov. 2008.
• Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea-Bissau, Africa Briefing Report, Observatoire de l'Afrique, EGMONT, Feb. 2008.
• Security Sector Reform in Sub-Sahara Africa, Stefan Liebig, Conference Report, Observatoire de l'Afrique, 21 Jan. 2008.

Strategic developments in Sub-Sahara Africa

• The list of publications will be published as soon as possible.

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