Female Peacekeepers’ Added Burden
Twenty years since the adoption of UNSC 1325 there is an almost unanimous call for an increased number of uniformed women in peace operations from policy makers and multilateral organizations. […]
Asia-Pacific
Publications
New Pact on Migration: a balanced proposal to be further enhanced
Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council, has been credited with the idea according to which the Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has three key tasks facing […]
Commentaries
Use Connectivity to Strengthen Multilateral Cooperation in the EU’s Neighbourhood
To strengthen multilateralism in their own neighbourhood, Germany and the EU should pursue connectivity strategies with their Eastern and Southern neighbours. These could create the links between the EU’s neighbours […]
Remolding China’s ‘Empty’ Belt and Road Initiative – An Opportunity for the EU
China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been subject to ample scrutiny since its inception in 2013. Practical results could be said to be severely lacking in contrast to […]
Other publications
After Covid-19: Economic security in EU-Asia connectivity
Globalization is not dead. But we will not go back to the world that was, where security and resilience to economic interdependence was an afterthought. In this new era, economic […]
Commentaries
The Belt and Road Initiative. Foreword: Connectivity with Consent
In Brussels too, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is on every-body’s lips. On 27 September 2019, Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe and outgoing Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker openedthe first EU-Asia […]
Events
The Broken Umbrella – Shifting Security Architecture in Europe and the Asia-Pacific
SAVE-THE-DATE On 9-11 December 2020, UCSIA organizes an academic workshop on shifting security architecture in Europe and the Asia-Pacific at the University of Antwerp.The end of the Cold War […]
WEBINAR: European response to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Join the discussion Speakers: Michael Köhler, Deputy Director General, DG ECHO, European Commission Reena Ghelani, Director of operations, OCHA Kathrin Schick, Director, VOICE Tineke Strik, Member of the European Parliament […]
The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Advancing Economic Security and Openness in Southeast Asia
Building on the success of the firs ttwo think tank dialogues, this third event will focus on challenges and opportunities for promoting economic security and openness through the implementation of […]
EU-ASEAN and the South China Sea Maritime territorial disputes, power rivalries and economic interests.
After a couple of relatively stable years in the South China Sea (SCS), tensions are flaring up again this year. We have witnessed the Vietnamese and Chinese deployments of oil […]