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The UN Pact for the Future: A Modest Boost for Global Governance Reform

Today’s multipolar world faces barriers to international cooperation. Geopolitical rivalries and divergent interests slow or prevent progress on critical global challenges, such as conflict, climate change, public health, migration, and […]

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The role of the BRICS in the world

The Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels Academy for China and European Studies, Confucius Institute at Vrije Universiteit Brussel are co-organizing an international conference on The Role of […]

European Defence: a new start ?

On invitation only

Since the beginning of 2015, a series of destabilizing events, from terrorism to a migration crisis without precedent, have shaken Europeans even in their daily lives. We are left with […]

Forgotten Power? Europe in a Multipolar World

International politics is not about charity, but about the pursuit of interests. That seems self-evident, but to the European Union it wasn’t. For a long time the EU closed its […]