The Great Powers have their ways
How will the great powers behave? That is what determines the future world order – or the absence of order. Could it be that China and the EU have found […]
Europe in the World
In a world that is largely driven by competition and rivalry (and partnership, yet) between great powers, understanding the Grand Strategy of each of these powers is crucial. So is developing a Grand Strategy for the EU itself. An EU that acts as one, as one pole of the multipolar world on a par with the other powers, is the only way to safeguard the way of life that the Member States of the EU have chosen, based on democracy, the free market, and equality.
Power cannot be divided: a global player must have political, economic, as well as military power. To that end, the Europe in the World Programme analyses the diplomacy and defence of the US, China, and Russia, and of the EU, NATO, and their members. We also focus on geoeconomics, researching Open Strategic Autonomy and the Global Gateway as key EU instruments, as well as the geoeconomic approaches of the other powers.
Defence policy is our third main axis of research, with a particular focus on European defence and its interaction with NATO, but also on nuclear deterrence and the deterrence of hybrid threats. Throughout all three research axis, we devote special attention to the role of Belgium, including notably the development of its own National Security Strategy and diplomatic and military capabilities.
Publications
A World in Flux
Scholars and pundits alike have been qualifying our times as of “transition and turbulence”, “disorder” and “strategic unease”. Other concepts that recur in discussions on the present state of the […]
The EU Global Strategy: Implications for Russia
Bringing together contributions from Egmont and the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the report “The EU Global Strategy: Implications for Russia” addresses key bilateral issues, such as resilience […]
External publications
Anticipating the Post-ISIS Landscape in Europe
New York was once again the scene of a terrorist attack. On Halloween, 31 October 2017, the 29-year old Uzbek-born Sayfullo Saipov plowed a truck down a crowded bike path […]
European Defence: What’s in the CARDs for PESCO?
Suddenly everything is happening at once: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), the European Defence Fund (EDF)… The launch of PESCO is expected before the […]
Vol. LXVIII- Issue 5 (2017)
Articles Preferences, approaches and influence: the Central and Eastern EU member states and the EU’s policies towards the post-Soviet space, by Fabienne Bossuyt Political cohesion and coordination of Nordic Plus […]