Commentaries
Behind some recent discussions on internet governance, there is a broader contest for power and values in cyberspace. This contest is a sign of the so-called “post-liberal order”. As a […]
External publications
It is becoming widely accepted that we have transitioned, or are now transitioning, from an international liberal order to a different reality. Whether that reality is different solely in terms […]
Commentaries
Far from the utopian dreams of being a ‘normative power’, the European Union has in recent years become a more pragmatic actor in the international arena, as enunciated in the […]
External publications
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 […]
Commentaries
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 […]
Commentaries
“Americans at that time [1945] – or at least we in Berlin – saw no reason why the Russian system of government and democracy as practised by the Western Allies […]