We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union
Nothing about the recent Paris or Copenhagen terrorist attacks was totally unexpected. Indeed, they were the sort of thing that security apparatuses in Europe had been preparing to have to deal with. Although security responses to terrorism are traditionally considered a quintessential national sovereignty prerogative, in the past ten to fifteen years the recognition that highly asymmetric security threats respect no borders has heightened the EU’s role as a coordinator in this policy domain. Some claim that counter-terrorism has changed the role and functioning of the EU itself towards a more operational character in security matters. Both old and new security responses to terrorism have (re-)emerged on the agenda of the EU and its member states in the ‘post-Paris attacks’ phase.
Evaluating Power Political Repertoires (EPOS)
EPOS aims to bring about a systematic problem shift in how power politics are studied by moving analytical focus from states' power resources and systemic features of world politi...
Mali and the Sahel – the geopolitics of conflict, collusion and collaboration
Mali and the Sahel is still facing an acute crisis of climatic variability, poverty and inequality, instability and conflict.
Special Adviser to the Head of the African Union Peace Support Operations Division (AU Adviser)
On the request of the African Union, Cedric de Coning serves as a Special Adviser to the Head of the Peace Support Division of the African Union Commission. This entails providing advi...