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What the Coronavirus will not change
Having now twice spoken to my laptop for an hour and a half, I am quite sure that there is one thing that the corona crisis will not change: when […]
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A Political Diagnosis of the Coronavirus
The speed and massive scale of China’s response to the coronavirus “showed China’s efficiency and the advantages of China’s system”, said Tedros Adhanom, director-general of the World Health Organisation, during […]
What’s the ‘Added Value’ of Male Peacekeepers? (Or – Why We Should Stop Instrumentalising Female Peacekeepers’ Participation)
How realistic and how fair are the expectations that we place on the small minority of female peacekeepers to bring an ‘added value’ to peace operations? Not at all, I […]
Europe in the face of US-China rivalry
This report explores how Europe is responding to increased US-Chinese geopolitical rivalry. It contains 18 country perspectives on Europe’s difficult balancing act between the US, a long-term strategic and economic […]
Europe and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: growing concerns, more strategy
Geopolitical shifts are engendering a transformation of the globalized economic order that has flourished in the post-Cold War period. This trend runs deep and raises structural challenges, – such as […]
Challenges of radicalisation in prison
On 12 November, the UN Security Council organised an Arria meeting on the challenges of radicalisation in prison. Our Senior Fellow Thomas Renard was invited to share his academic expertise […]