When things fall apart – France’s withdrawal from Mali
When things fall apart you usually take a step back to look at what went wrong and to learn from past mistakes. Or, as in the case with France in […]
Publications
What if the Helsinki spirit was revived by climate change?
In the context of the current Russia-West crisis, there are increasing calls for a new kind of agreement, which should somehow revive the spirit of the Helsinki Final Act of […]
Hybrid Warfare Is not Synonymous with Cyber: The Threat of Influence Operations
The recent cyber-attack on Ukraine’s governmental websites, widely attributed to Russia, has reinforced the widely held perception equating Hybrid Warfare with hostile cyber activities. This overlooks the broader and devastating […]
The Old is Dying and The New Cannot Be Born (Yet?)
During the past two decades, Security Sector Reform (SSR) has been an important and visible part of international support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Most of this […]
Belgian National Security Strategy
Egmont Institute is proud to have contributed to the elaboration of the first Belgian National Security Strategy. The Institute launched the Think-Tank Platform National Security to continue work on the […]
Facing a pandemic: African armies and the fight against Covid-19
The goal of this report is to empirically study the domestic deployment of militaries to manage the pandemic on the African continent. In this perspective, the COVID-19 crisis is a […]