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 […]
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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 […]
European Defence and PESCO: don’t waste the chance
There was a copious flow of polite conversation, at the end of which a tactful report was drawn up […] Thus we had arrived at those broad, happy uplands where […]
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Victory in Europe: Remember, to Act
“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 […]
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Ik weet wat quarantaine is. Zie het niet als onrecht en help elkaar
Ik weet wat quarantaine is. Elkaar helpen is de boodschap. Ik was zeven jaar. Het eerste leerjaar zat er voor mij net op. En plots veranderde alles, van de ene […]
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Defence against the Coronavirus, or the Soldier and the Welfare State
Since my husband has taken to spraying the door handles with vodka, our apartment has begun to resemble Stalin’s politburo: you cannot leave when you want to, and there will […]