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Reframing the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
This book reflects the European Union’s need for hard power in order to provide the military security its own citizens demand but understand too little. In this sense, the paper stems from the need to clarify the next possible evolution of the current Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU, while also introducing to the public the controversial possibility of the EU joining forces and creating its own army. Beyond the theoretical background, the paper proposes a practical, exploratory approach, which addresses data and forecasts for testing such a major administrative undertaking, while including both a qualitative and quantitative approach. Suitable for a wide range of audiences, from the young generation to scholars, research centres, development hubs, political decision-makers, or legislators, the paper aims to bring more clarity and concrete solutions to the current stages of military cooperation and integration of the EU’s Member States, while opening at the same time new and relevant paths towards further and deeper research reflections in this regard.
The Societal Foundations of National Competitiveness
Nations rise and fall, succeed or fail in rivalries, and enjoy stability or descend into chaos because of a complex web of factors. One critical component is a nation’s essential social characteristics. This report examines the characteristics of highly competitive societies, explores the relationship of a nation’s social condition to its global standing, and then applies these lessons to the United States today.
Turbulence Across the Sea
Great Power competition is back. On the two sides of the Atlantic, however, this concept often means different things. While the United States is focused on China, Europe is preoccupied with Russia. Yet shifting American priorities toward Asia requires reconceptualizing the future role of NATO. In Europe, this shift has led to serious thought about how to achieve strategic autonomy that will allow Europe to guarantee its own security regardless of strategic choices made in Washington. As Chinese strategy focuses on dividing European actors and making them more economically dependent on Beijing, these developments may undermine Washington’s influence in Europe while limiting potential Europ...
The End of Western Hegemonies?
In the face of recent trends like growing authoritarianism and xenophobic nationalism, the rise of the Far Right, the explosion of economic and social inequalities, heightened geopolitical contest and global capitalism’s endless crisis, and the impacts of shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, discourses about the ‘decline of the West’ no more look like mere ruminations of a handful of cultural depressives and politically disillusioned; they sound increasingly realistic. This volume addresses this issue by mapping and analyzing the forms, mechanisms, strategies, and effects, in the past, the present, and the future, of Western hegemonies, namely, asymmetrical relations that bring advantage...
Brothers in Arms
At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, a large number of Hollanders and Dutch expatriates joined the Boers, their reasons ranging from loyalty to their common ancestry to strong anti-British sentiments and a search for adventure. Brothers in Arms documents the trials and tribulations of these volunteers – most of them unaccustomed to the harsh landscape and climate of South Africa. Quotations and personal anecdotes from their diaries and memoirs vividly bring to life their hardships on commando, the thunder and chaos of battle, and the trauma of comrades falling around them. Some of the prominent figures in the book are Cornelius van Gogh, brother of the painter Vincent van ...
Europe and the Maritime World
This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.
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Knickerbocker Weekly
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