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The Migration Ticking Clock
Migration has made another appearance in the March EUCO conclusions after a much-awaited come-back to the EUCO summit in February. A series of recent events has made the return of […]
Publications
Books
Book review: Johan Verbeke’s Diplomacy in Practice: A critical approach
This is a practitioner’s handbook for students; as Verbeke modestly remarks in his foreword, “this book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy while simultaneously inviting them to critically […]
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. *****
Commentaries
De-risking de-cyphered
Disgruntled with the deteriorating Sino-Soviet relationship, Mao was never shy of humiliating his Soviet counterparts. In an audacious power move, Chairman Mao, himself an avid swimmer, organised a meeting with […]
Commentaries
New technologies, new threats, new budgets
Generative AI today, and Quantum Computing tomorrow, pose new geopolitical realities and threats, some of which are already known. Mass de-encryption of data will be one of the threats posed […]
Commentaries
EU-China: we have to talk about (not Macron but) strategy
Most people don’t like to hear inconvenient truths, especially not, it seems, from the President of France. Yet when Macron says that the European Union should become the third pole, […]