China’s stance on Ukraine: preventing NATO from interfering in the Indo-Pacific
China has adopted a complex stance on the crisis between Russia and Ukraine due to its own economic interests.
International Security
How to keep France engaged in NATO
France's policy towards NATO has always been ambivalent: committed to collective defence, but sceptical about political and strategic coordination among allies.
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.
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.
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