The ‘Arab Spring’: winter of our discontent?
With a lack of money and the departure of the United States, how can Europeans manage their turbulent neighbourhoods, particularly to the south and south-east? in Ideas on Europe – […]
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Europe and the Arab Spring: four seasons in one day
The Arab Spring is happening in spite of the European Union, not thanks to it. That fact calls for a serious reappraisal of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) towards our […]
The Lubanga verdict: a milestone in the fight against impunity?
It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who was a leading figure […]
An Arab springboard for EU foreign policy?
The EU has not been perceived as reacting very rapidly or effectively to the socalled Arab Spring. Events do validate the underpinning idea of the European Security Strategy and the […]
Obama takes on the LRA. Why Washington sent troops to Central Africa
Two events underlie the renewed interest. First, in October, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he would be sending “combat-equipped troops” on a kill-or-capture mission to take out Kony in […]
Palestinian unity government: EU should find ways to cooperate
Hamas and Fatah, along with other Palestinian factions and parties, signed a unity agreement on the 27th of April, with the aim of ending a four-year-long political division of the […]