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Europa: strategie voor een wereldmacht
In de tweede helft van 2010 neemt België het Voorzitterschap van de Europese Unie over, op een cruciaal moment. Nu het Verdrag van Lissabon eindelijk in werking is getreden, kan […]
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Belgium in the UN Security Council. Reflections on the 2007-2008 membership
In 2007 and 2008, Belgium was once again a privileged observer of the international community’s approach to peace and security, serving as non-permanent member at the UN Security Council. Participating […]
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Artisanal diamond mining. Perspectives and challenges
The success of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) has been built on providing assurances that the trade in diamonds amongst signatory countries is based on diamonds traded legitimately, untainted […]
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Jihadi terrorism and the radicalisation challenge in Europe
Often dubbed as a ‘global threat’, most observers analyze the terrorist threat as a patchwork of self-radicalizing local troups with international contacts but without a central engine or any central […]
The Treaty of Lisbon: implementing the institutional innovations
Over the last two years much intellectual energy has been devoted to the analysis of, and the potential solutions to, the constitutional impasse resulting from the failure to ratify the […]
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The EU and the European Security Strategy. Forging a global Europe
The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to […]