Putin wins and loses: towards a new European order?
Putin is winning with the political-military dispute he is pursuing in Ukraine, while also losing in other respects.
International Security
NATO gets an update: the Madrid Strategic Concept
NATO has convened a summit for heads of state and government in Madrid in June 2022 to approve a new Strategic Concept to update the 2010 Lisbon Strategic Concept.
What matters to the UK in the context of the new Strategic Concept discussion
The discussions around NATO’s new Strategic Concept coincide with a new chapter in the UK’s own foreign and defence policy, as the country redefines its priorities in the post-Brexit era and in a rapidly changing geostrategic environment.
Choreographing a pas de deux: a Dutch perspective on NATO’s (and the EU’s) near future
With regard to NATO, the Netherlands combines various capacities. As one of the Organisation’s founding members it has traditionally been considered a loyal ally.
All wars are hybrid, but war and the notion of hybrid have changed
It is neither war nor hybrid, but in all cases there is a certain mix of political, economic, social and, in some cases, military methods.
Afghanistan: the reasons why the Taliban’s return to power will have an impact on the Jihadist threat in western Europe
With the Taliban governing in Kabul it is likely that the central command of al-Qaeda as a global Jihadist structure will find Afghanistan and Pakistan a much more permissive space for planning new attacks in the western world, something that in the short and medium term will have a greater impact on European societies.
Roundtable “The European Union’s next enlargement: prospects and pitfalls”
Participants: Miguel Ángel Aguilar, President, Fundación Carlos de Amberes; Charles Powell, Director, Elcano Royal Institute; Robert Krmelj, Ambassador of Slovenia to Spain; Maciej Popowski, Acting Director-General at the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European CommissionJuan González-Barba, State Secretary for the European Union, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation of Spain; Gašper Dovžan, State Secretary, Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia; Nikola Dimitrov, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia; Jadranka Joksimović, Minister of European Integration of the Republic of Serbia; Megi Fino, Deputy Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs at Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania; Ljubomir Mišurović, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro; Florian Bieber, Coordinator, Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group; Ivan Vejvoda, Acting Rector, Institute for Human Sciences; Vesko Garcevic, Professor, Boston University; ex ambassador of Montenegro to NATO; Peter Grk, Secretary General of Bled Strategic Forum and Ruth Ferrero, professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Moderators : Charles Powell, Director, Elcano Royal Institute and María Solanas, Director of Programmes, Elcano Royal Institute.Friday, 19th November 2021, from 09:30 to 11:45 h. CET (UTC+1). Fundación Carlos de Amberes, c/ Claudio Coello, 99, Madrid, Spain.
The limits of like-mindedness in cyberspace
In reaction to the Ghostwriter campaign, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, published a Declaration on 24 September 2021 on the ‘respect for the EU’s democratic processes’. Surprisingly, the Declaration inherently failed to rally widespread public support among Western democracies in Europe and beyond.
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