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Toward Crisis Management in East Asia’s Seas
5 Feb
Japan’s New Security Policy: Breaking Away from the Post-War Regime?
20 Jan
Carving up the Skies: China’s New Air Defense Zone
7 Jan
Cyber-Security: Problems Outpace Solutions
16 Dec
European Defence Summit: Time to Move Forward
6 Dec
Europe’s defence: What the December 2013 European Council should yield
14 Nov
UN Statebuilding at a Turning Point: What’s new about the intervention brigade and peacekeeping drones?
27 Sep
Local Capacity Building and the Current Crisis in Mindanao
26 Sep
Arctic Conflict Potential: Towards an extra-Arctic perspective
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Due Diligence and the futility of creating norms in cyberspace
It has become all too common for European policymakers and academics alike to obsess over the creation of norms in cyberspace. Especially the promotion of the due diligence principle, to regulate state behaviour in the fifth domain, is riddled with forlorn expectations and futile assumptions. According to customary international law, due diligence stipulates that, “no… Read article ›
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A new Headline Goal for Europe’s defence capabilities
When it comes to improving Europe’s defence capabilities, there appears to be no shortage of catalysts for action – the publication of the EU’s Global Strategy, NATO’s Warsaw Summit, further devastating terror attacks within Europe’s borders and the dark stain of unrelenting violence spreading throughout the Middle East and Africa. There have been wake-up calls… Read article ›
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Europe’s soft power could defuse Asia’s crises
Europe is facing its worst security crises in living memory. To its south, Daesh has filled the Middle East’s power vacuums, driving a refugee crisis that threatens to tear the European Union apart as each nation reacts on its own rather than in the collective interest. To the east, Russia’s flagrant disregard for international norms… Read article ›
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The EU cannot be a bystander on Asian security
Asian security is being threatened at a multitude of flashpoints. In the northeast, North Korea under Kim Jong-un has launched long-range ballistic missiles after beginning the year by carrying out its fourth nuclear test, and it was announced in early March that Pyongyang now possesses nuclear warheads that fit to its ballistic missiles. Given that these… Read article ›
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Europe has a choice on the South China Sea
In recent years, Europe has become involved the South China Sea issue. In the name of defending multilateralism and international law and order, it has repeatedly expressed concern. It admittedly has the right. But are these concerns based on fact? I’d like to stress that the root cause of the South China Sea issue is… Read article ›
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NATO needs an upgrade
Political polarisation in Europe could undermine our shared values and transatlantic unity. Part of the remedy for a Europe whole, free and at peace is to adapt NATO to the new security environment. I have become increasingly concerned about the health of European politics. Political unity in Europe is under pressure, and nationalism is on the… Read article ›
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The EU and NATO: Divided they fall
More than two years have passed since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and the peninsula has still not been returned to the sovereign state of Ukraine. Despite persistent Russian denials, regular Russian troops remain in Donbass, and Moscow continues to provide military equipment and training to the separatists in eastern Ukraine. The Russian aim is… Read article ›
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The nuclear threat is back
For many, a new age of conflicts and low-level yet bloody wars has begun by revealing ‘new’ transnational threats such as uncontrolled migration, terrorism, civil wars or emerging cyberattacks. Additionally, new actors such as an ascending China and a reinvigorated Russia are playing a bigger role in the search of a new world order for… Read article ›
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Europe’s policies don’t fit the new world order
Since the end of the Cold War, the EU has benefited from an unprecedented geopolitical windfall. As the Soviet Union dissolved and new countries joined, it seemed to many Europeans that geopolitics no longer mattered. Talk throughout these years was mostly about geo-economics, in which the EU could – and still can – stand its… Read article ›
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Is China’s challenge to maritime law facilitated by Western neglect?
At the end of the G7 summit in Japan in late May, the group expressed concerns regarding tensions in the South China Sea and called for their peaceful resolution. Ahead of the expected ruling on China’s territorial claims by a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the global community is rightly… Read article ›