After Covid-19: Economic security in EU-Asia connectivity
Globalization is not dead. But we will not go back to the world that was, where security and resilience to economic interdependence was an afterthought. In this new era, economic […]
Publications
Going the Extra Mile for the 2020 Elections in the Central African Republic
The upcoming 2020 presidential election in the Central African Republic (CAR) has the potential to derail the implementation of the 2019 Khartoum Peace Agreement and bring about a return to […]
Asia-Pacific, EU internal policies; Africa; Asia-Pacific; Latin-America; Middle East-North Africa;
Weaker together or weaker apart? Great power relations after the coronavirus
The coronavirus is a symmetrical threat: it hits everybody. How hard it hits depends in the first instance on the power of each and every state: the resilience of its […]
COVID-19 and the Climate – Energy Nexus
Analysing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the climate-energy nexus, raises three important questions. First, what does this global health and economic crisis mean for the future of fossil fuels, particularly […]
Give us the real PESCO, please!
With 47 projects adopted, there is a lot of activity in Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the European Union’s mechanism for defence cooperation. However, the current projects do not effectively address […]
The Belt and Road Initiative. Foreword: Connectivity with Consent
In Brussels too, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is on every-body’s lips. On 27 September 2019, Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe and outgoing Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker openedthe first EU-Asia […]