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03 Feb THE EU STRATEGY OF DEALING WITH IRAN: AN EXAMPLE OF APPEASEMENT POLITICS?
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By Aileen Schuurmans Earlier this month, the Dutch cabinet publicly accused Iran of involvement with two murders on Dutch soil, and asked for EU sanctions to punish some of Iran’s officials for it. However, many people regard the sanctions as weak and as ‘symbol politics’. How...
27 Jan ASSESSING THE WIV HALF A YEAR AFTER ITS ADOPTION
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By Steven van der Plas It has already been half a year since the Dutch government implemented the new law on intelligence and security services (WIV), which simultaneously expanded the powers of the Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) and the Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) while...
20 Jan ONE FOOT OUT THE DOOR
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Change and continuity in the EU’s security environment post-Brexit By Daniël Stuke Last Tuesday, amidst a lot of commotion and posturing, the UK’s House of Commons voted against the proposed Brexit-deal between the UK and the EU. Meanwhile, only 68 days remain until the moment the UK...
19 Jan 6 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2019
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2018 has been a turbulent political year all over the world. The election of populist leaders, changing international power dynamics and rise of non-state terrorist actors have all challenged different levels of governance. Simultaneously, citizens used social media and the act of protest to show...
23 Dec The Global Chessboard of Power Politics in the South Pacific
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Power Politics in Papua New Guinea By Emanuel Skoog In November this year, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that the U.S. will partner with PNG and its longstanding Pacific ally Australia to a...
16 Dec RECAP HYBRID WARFARE CONFERENCE
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A Crash Course on Hybrid Warfare Contemporary wars are different from the ones we witnessed in the preceding centuries. The fundamental characteristics and conducts of armed conflicts have entered a new paradigm in which the state is not the only target of warfare. Instead, we have...
09 Dec ABE’S AMBITION
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For over 70 years, art. 9 of the Japanese constitution has guaranteed Japan’s pacifism and contributed towards peaceful conflict resolution in a dangerous region. Currently, Japanese policy makers struggle to deal with a resurgent China, an unpredictable regime in North Korea and a vital, yet...
02 Dec COLD POLITICS: A FASCIST RENAISSANCE ON THE STREETS OF BERLIN?
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By Tarik Soliman Osman Dear Reader, Today is Sunday, the 2nd of December 2018, and I am on my university exchange at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As the winter season is slowly but surely rolling in, the city feels gloomier and colder by the day. People increasingly...
30 Nov JASON CONFERENCE: CRASH COURSE HYBRID WARFARE
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On the 30th of November 2018, the JASON institute for Peace & Security Studies organized a Crash Course on the subject matter of Hybrid Warfare. The location of the event was the congress centre 7AM in The Hague. The crash course was structured as a conference...