by Saban Yuksel* | Aug 25, 2020 | Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Research
Introduction EUFOR RCA was the EU’s military operation in the Central African Republic[1], launched on 1 April 2014. The EU started to search for partners from the very beginning and cooperated with the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and the selected third...
by Steven Blockmans* | Jan 9, 2020 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
Thank you very much for having me via video-link. Congratulations to the friends at Beyond the Horizon for mounting this impressive conference. I apologise for not being able to join you in person and would like to thank the organisers for allowing me to beam in from...
by Arnout Molenaar* | Nov 29, 2019 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
We had a lot of development on defense over the last two years. In 2016, the security environment changed, the strategic context was changed and of course the political context with Brexit was changed. It was like the perfect storm and it came together around the...
by Elena Lazarou* | Nov 28, 2019 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
Thank you very much. I have to say that I will not provide an institutional point of view from the European Parliament but a research point of view. When I was asked to speak about the implications of PESCO for the transatlantic defence industry, my first reaction was...
by Diego de Ojeda* | Nov 18, 2019 | Commentary, Event, Geopolitics & International Security, International Organisations, Proceedings
Presently, the European Defence Fund is not yet a reality but there are two pilot programmes that are already up and running. First, I would like to take a step back and qualify the impression that, I think, is emanating from previous information: to some extent the...
by Dr. Mehmet Mukerrem Ari* | Sep 24, 2019 | Geopolitics & International Security, Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Research
ABSTRACT The subject of security has been at the heart of the study of international relations especially for the past half century. It has been to some extent pivotal to the way the scholars of international relations have thought about the core purpose of discipline...
