Commentaries
The EU and the Red Sea: Now This Is Geopolitics
The EU is preparing to launch a maritime operation to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea from attacks by the Houthis from Yemen. A welcome and necessary decision; and […]
Middle-East / North Africa
Publications
Rethinking Geopolitical Strategies: from Conflict Management to Conflict Resolution in the Middle East
The Gaza war, the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Yemeni civil war, the Syrian civil war, and the Nagorno-Karbach conflict, to name a few conflicts on the edges of Europe, have […]
External publications
UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects
This year marks the 75th anniversary of what the UN itself understands to be its first peacekeeping operation. It is therefore an appropriate time to reflect on the track record […]
Commentaries
“Cannon to Right of Them, Cannon to Left of Them”: Coping with War Around Europe
War over Nagorno-Karabakh, war over Palestine: there have, sadly, been many. Their direct impact on European and global security was mostly limited, but for the people on the ground they […]
Commentaries
Behind the Hamas attack on Israel, Hard Geopolitics lurk
Three key strategic issues underpin Hamas’s timing and extremely violent method in its recent attack on Israel. Rather than describing the facts, and staying away from the (very justified) emotional […]
Commentaries
Sudan and the limits of externally facilitated dialogues
The current crisis in Sudan demonstrates the limits of externally facilitated dialogues as tools for democratization and peacebuilding. *****