Commentaries
Don’t Join the NATO Summit Without Knowing Who You Are
“The most loyal allies of the United States”. For decades, that is what most European political and military leaders understood Europe’s role on the world stage to be. In my […]
European defence / NATO
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External publications
Leaving the Free-Rider Club: Lessons from Belgium
While tensions over unequal burden sharing within NATO are nearly as old as the alliance itself, so-called free-riders have never come under fire as harshly as they have since Donald Trump’s […]
Commentaries
Realigning Belgium’s Geostrategic Focus with its New Defence Capabilities
During the coming months and years, new defence capabilities will be arriving in Belgium. For example, the first F-35A fighter jets and MQ-9B unmanned aerial vehicles are expected to land […]
NATO: The Damage Is Done – So Think Big
For seventy-six years, NATO tried to prove Lord Palmerston wrong. Now it turns out that he was right after all: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual […]
External publications
Terrorist Threats Outside of Warzone: Clashing Narratives, Foreign Information Manipulation & Influence, and Post-Truth
The illegal Russian war of aggression against Ukraine (IRWAAU) produced a number of valuable lessons in how terrorism might evolve in the Cognitive Domain, and possible associated kinetic and non-kinetic […]
External publications
Cooperation in an Era of Confrontation: The Case of the Benelux Arms Control Agency
Both nuclear and conventional arms control guardrails are eroding, and the risk of great power confrontation is growing. Subsequently, middle and small power cooperation on arms control can be beneficial […]