The Strategic Committee on Belgian Defence: How to Read the Report. Egmont Commentary 28 June 2021.

A band of hardliners with a shopping list: that is how we came across after the debate in the media and in the defence committee of the Belgian Federal Parliament last week. We, that is the Strategic Committee on Belgian Defence: ten academics, including the three of us, and two co-chairs who wrote a report at the request of Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder

China’s Evolving Behaviour in Africa and the Options of Cooperation with Europe

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2011: China's Evolving Africa Policy: The Limits of Socializatio

China’s Evolving Behaviour in Africa and the Options of Cooperation with Europe

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2011: China's Evolving Africa Policy: The Limits of Socializatio

China and India : prospects for peace

For all their spectacular growth, China and India must still lift a hundred million citizens out of poverty and create jobs for the numerous labourers. Both powers hope trade and investment will help sustaining national unity. This book demonstrates that despite two decades of peace, mutual perceptions have become hostile, and a military game of tit-for-tat promises to diminish prospects for peace. This book is down-to-earth and realistic while also taking into account the complexities of internal policy-making. The result is a fascinating portrait of the complicated interaction among economic, political, military, and perceptional levels of diplomac