Themes

After the Prague summit “Southern Corridor - New Silk Road” on May 8, there were press reports about “major breakthroughs” concerning the pipeline project Nabucco. As the substance of agreements have not been made public, it is difficult to assess the extent of these...

'The planet will be inhabited by more than 9 billion people in 2050, hence a crucial question: will the global agricultures be able to feed a growing population?'

The causes of the failure of the WTO negotiations in Geneva are the contradictions embedded in the negotiations cycle itself, and not the question of subsidies and protectionism, as it has generally been portrayed. By renaming this negotiation 'development cycle' soon after its opening in Doha...

War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected trends are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt: the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the Web. Both in cyberspace and in warfare, a public dimension has assumed increasing importance in...

This project aims at examining and comparing the ' national models of integration ' in France and the Netherlands in a context when the question of their crisis is raised. The social and political practice of the discourse about the model needs to be questioned in order to understand the...

Ambassador William C. Ramsay introduced the debate by asking some of the major questions concerning global energy governance today. Those deal with the role of the different international organizations dealing with energy, the rules of the game between market and state players...

Non-governmental organisations, and among them political foundations, have become important actors in international relations, especially since the end of the Cold War. Americans and Germans hold a prominent position, many of their foundations acting either as a support or as an opposition to...

During the last twenty years, financial globalization has strongly stimulated world growth. But it entailed a negative consequence: the spread of the financial crisis all over the world. This crisis demonstrates how necessary a new world governance system is. It must be implemented on two...