Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain
The end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 have showcased the foreign policy and defence approach of the second Trump administration, not only in words, such as the releases […]
Asia-Pacific
Publications
The Sino-India Relationship and the Future of Asia: A European Perspective
In the context of the recent global geopolitical flux, it would be useful to give a European perspective on the evolving relationship between India and China and its broader implications […]
External publications
Belgium-Taiwan relations: Balancing EU alignment and regional dynamics
Belgium has long maintained relatively warm relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Several of China’s first-generation communist leaders studied in Belgium during the interwar period, and although Belgium—like […]
Commentaries
Trump Divides the World
President Roosevelt was sincere in his altruism. Of course, the US is at the centre of the international order of which, in 1944-45, he laid the foundation, not least in […]
The (In)Auspicious Number Four: An Assessment of the Fourth Plenum of the Twentieth National Congress of the CCP
Amid ongoing rivalry between various factions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), severely depleted ranks caused by the ongoing anti-corruption crackdown, purges within the top ranks of the Chinese military, […]
The Middle East and Central Asia now bound to the US by the Abrahamic Accords: Is Syria the US’ new backyard?
An overarching geopolitical question crossed my Byzantine mind as I methodically contemplated, across continents, the overlay of maps, with newly concluded treaties on the one hand, and geopolitical moves on […]