Ten Years of Belt & Road – Quo Vadis?
A decade ago, President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative. Promising large infrastructure projects, the initiative was welcomed by vastly underinvested countries all over the world. Also on […]
Publications
Behind the Hamas attack on Israel, Hard Geopolitics lurk
Three key strategic issues underpin Hamas’s timing and extremely violent method in its recent attack on Israel. Rather than describing the facts, and staying away from the (very justified) emotional […]
Mission Accomplished? The Evaluation of Ethnic Quotas in Burundi
The Burundian Senate is currently evaluating the future of the country’s system of constitutional ethnic quotas. In this context, we review the objectives and track-record of these quotas, and provide […]
Meloni and the EU align on the Mediterranean pivot
Since coming into office, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has adopted a more pragmatic stance on migration compared to her harsh rhetoric as an opposition politician. *****
Charting Belgium’s Economic Security – a complex country in a complex world
Economic Security is mentioned as one of the four pillars of the Belgian National Security Strategy (NSS). Ever since the inception of the NSS, the geoeconomic arena has been turbulent […]
Countering FIMI: A Critical Imperative for Mission Safety
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) has been largely viewed as a communications’ threat undermining the soft cornerstones of the democratic order, e.g., trust, legitimacy, and cohesion. *****