Commentaries
What Putin wants (in Syria)
Many observers are speculating about Putin’s strategy in Syria. This commentary argues that Vladimir Putin’s military intervention is driven by five key objectives, with domestic, local,
Middle-East / North Africa
Publications
Commentaries
Putin is not such a brillant strategist
Putin may be a master tactician, but a sober analysis of the outcome of some of his recent decisions show him to be an apprentice strategist (in Dutch).
From survival to revival: The Riga Summit 2015 and the revised ENP
With the European Parliament’s July report on the revision of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) calling on the Commission to ‘go back to basics’, this article argues that such a […]
Studia Diplomatica
Vol. LXVII, Issue 2 (2014)
Articles When “Good Enough” does not suffice. The impact of crisis on institutional change in European financial sector governance by Aneta B. Spendzharova and Esther Versluis Banking union in Europe […]
External publications
Taking EU-Iran relations beyond the nuclear file
Engaging in dialogue with Iran on issues beyond the nuclear program is unlikely to lead to an EU-Iranian partnership in the short term. But it is hard to see how […]
The Arab spring in comparative perspective
Egmont’s Sven Biscop, with Stefan Borg (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), contributed the chapter on the role of the EU to this assessment of the Arab Spring, which was commissioned […]