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 […]
Publications
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 […]
‘Un cauchemar logistique’ : Exploration des défis logistiques liés au retrait forcé de la MINUSMA
Le 16 juin 2023, les autorités de transition maliennes ont exigé le retrait immédiat de la MINUSMA, la mission de paix de l’ONU déployée depuis 10 ans au Mali. Cette […]
Financial Influence Operations in the Hybrid Threats Spectrum
This paper examines the Hybrid Threats posed by perfectly legal and legitimate financial markets operations to national security through a variety of legal routes including acquisitions of intellectual property (IPs), […]
Bargaining Chips: The Gilded Tech Triangle of Riyadh, Silicon Valley and Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump is visibly in his element when surrounded by gilded palaces, ornate fountains, and absolute monarchs. His bond with the Gulf States—particularly Saudi Arabia—goes beyond mere aesthetic affinity or […]
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 […]