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Although the world currently seems to be "on hold" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts are continuing, often in their full intensity, but with diminished international attention. This...

10/07/2020

The myriad social protests in hundreds of US cities and towns following the death of George Floyd have laid bare a number of significant societal fault lines. The racial question - whereby racial...

16/06/2020

Amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, collective security arrangements have historically proven elusive. Mutual mistrust, no shared perceptions of threats,...

05/05/2020

EU-Japan relations have received a major boost with the signing of a major trade accord and a strategic partnership agreement this year. The EU and Japan have decided to upgrade their partnership...

31/07/2019

Friday's attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, where about a fifth of the world's energy traffic...

20/06/2019

One year after the US's unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran, 21 directors and senior researchers from leading European think tanks...

17/06/2019


The rise of a nationalist agenda that promotes a vision of national sovereignty as hardly compatible with shared governance mechanisms is transforming the political landscape in Europe and...

14/05/2019

In recent years, China has become a major economic and diplomatic player in Europe through what it calls "One Belt, One Road." With Italy the first major Western power to sign a Belt and Road...

16/04/2019

President Trump’s announcement that the US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, land Israel seized from Syria...

04/04/2019

Nathalie Tocci, back from the Munich Security Conference, where she chaired the first panels, talks about the main messages and lessons of the conference...

20/02/2019