End-state Afghanistan: a European perspective
The international conference on Afghanistan called upon by Germany and the United Kingdom and to be held later this year or in early 2010, will probably offer the very last […]
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Afghanistan : une guerre stratégique pour l’Europe, un conflit existentiel pour l’OTAN.
Le remplacement du général David McKiernan par le général Stanley McChrystal à la tête des forces de l’Otan en Afghanistan, annoncé le 11 mai dernier, confirmait le besoin de donner […]
Als een bom in Afghanistan
After The bomb attempt in Pakistan Pershawar, Rik Coolsaet pleads a progresive military withdrawal of Afghanistan. in De Standaard, 31 Oct. 2009. (Photo credit : EUPOL Afghanistan, © European Union, 1995-2014)
Europe rediscovers peacekeeping? Political and military logics in the 2006 UNIFIL enhancement
The war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 came to an end when both conflict parties accepted the plan of reinforcing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) as […]
The value of power, the power of values: a call for an EU grand strategy
In its 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS), the EU has a grand strategy, embracing all instruments and resources at the disposal of the Union and the Member States, but a […]
Legislating amidst public controversy: the services directive
The adoption of the Services Directive in 2006 constituted the final act of one of the most controversial pieces of European legislation adopted in recent years. The ‘Bolkestein Directive’ envisaged […]