If the EU is Trump’s Foe, the EU should address Trumpism within Europe
Much is being made of the recent claim of the President of the United States that the European Union is “a foe”. The great paradox is that this statement is […]
Publications
Children in the Levant: Insights from Belgium on the dilemmas of repatriation and the challenges of reintegration
According to intelligence estimates, there are around 1,400 European children in Syria and Iraq, many of them born there. The fate of these children confronts European governments with moral, legal, […]
Blind vertrouwen op het Internationaal Strafhof helpt niet in de strijd tegen straffeloosheid
The ICC’s acquittal on 11 June 2018 of Jean-Pierre Bemba, former DRC Vice-President and leader of Congolese rebel group turned political party, the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC), […]
Letting Europe go its own way
The Trump administration seems to believe that allies are meant to pay and obey. When it comes to Europe, this may pose a problem. During the Cold War, what was […]
Competition, Patronage and Fragmentation: The limits of bottom-up approaches to Security Governance in Ituri
People are affected by different kinds of insecurity in the Ituri Province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This article investigates donor-driven attempts to improve […]
The EU and multilateralism in an age of Great Powers
Try to imagine a major issue in world politics today that could be settled (whether peacefully or forcefully) by a single power: one cannot. It’s the interplay between at least […]