More than 5,000 North African volunteers travelled to Syria and Iraq in the aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’, and about 2,000 joined jihadi groups in Libya. This report looks at […]
DRC’s outgoing President Joseph Kabila, who was barred from standing for a third term, has found an entirely novel way of hanging on to power. African presidents have previously achieved […]
There are two ways to engage in world politics: power or rules. This formula is too simple to be true of course. Rules without power is fragmented at best, and […]
Europe wants autonomy and it wants a strategy. Semantically, of course, “wants” has a double meaning. First, it means “lacks”. Europe lacks autonomy and it lacks a strategy. The second […]
On 1 February 2019, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that his country had suspended its compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty, and would […]
The EU Global Strategy is crystal clear on the EU’s political level of ambition yet remarkably silent on the corresponding military level of ambition. But strategy without capabilities is just […]