Exploring the boundaries of conditionality in the EU
Conditionality in the EU comes in many forms: legally codified and enforced by the Court of Justice, or reliant on intergovernmental bargaining and expressed by means of political or economic […]
Publications
External publications
European defence: give PESCO a chance
At their 1998 Saint-Malo Summit, the UK and France initiated the creation of a military arm for the European Union, now known as the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). […]
External publications
The in-between of being a civilian and combatant – circular return in eastern DR Congo
Koen Vlassenroot, Emery Mudinga and Josaphat Musamba Bussy tackle the complexities around the remobilisation of armed combatants following conflict and introduce new ways to look at it. This publication was […]
Commentaries
Trump and the triumph of unreason
“I am so attached to [the cause] in my heart, and I am so convinced that God our Saviour must embrace it as His own cause, that I cannot be […]
Between Rome and Sibiu: a trajectory for the new European narrative
Many observers may easily reach the conclusion that the European Union (EU) has been in crisis for the last decade. Against this background, and especially since the outcome of the […]
The dangerous geopolitics of Populism, and what NATO and the EU can do about it
Undemocratic governments are at risk of creating a geopolitical void in central Europe. By antagonizing fellow European states in NATO and the EU, at a time when the US is […]