Assessing the EU’s strategic partnerships in the UN system
In this Security Policy Brief, Thomas Renard and Bas Hooijmaaijers look at the relationship between the EU and its ten strategic partners in the UN system, focussing on the UNGA, […]
EU and strategic partners
Publications
The treachery of strategies: a call for true EU strategic partnerships
In September 2010, the European Council discussed for the first time the European Union’s (EU) strategic partnerships, a foreign policy concept that was until then unknown to most people – […]
Studia Diplomatica
Vol. LXIV, Issue 2 (2011)
– The EU’s comprehensive approach to security: a culture of co-ordination?, Magriet Drent – The EU, NATO and the Lisbon Treaty: still divided within a common city, Simon Duke – […]
Commentaries
The treachery of strategies
This short blog entry reviews the EU’s development and implementation of its so-called ‘strategic partnerships’. It summarizes the main findings of Egmont Paper 45.
Libya and the post-American world: implications for the EU
This Security Policy Brief looks at the vote on the UNSC resolution on Libya and tries to see in it some signs of the new international order in the making.Why […]
External publications
The strategic union: rising to the multipolar challenge
It’s all very well saying the EU’s great strength lies in its capacity to speak with one voice on international affairs, argue Thomas Renard and Sven Biscop, but to what […]