Entries by Patrick Willemsen

Workshop | Guarding the Commons: Multilateralizing Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific

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Maintaining a stable, secure, and open Indo-Pacific is crucial to European prosperity and values. Europeans are therefore looking for a role in the region, but which one can and should they play? Multilateral cooperation is the preferred European approach, but with which regional partners? Europeans have increased their naval presence in the region, but is it sufficient? To answer these questions, HCSS is running the Guarding the Maritime Commons project in 2021 and 2022.

Rob de Wijk bij talkshow M over migrantencrisis aan de Poolse grens

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De Wit-Russische dictator Loekasjenko gebruikt migranten om te EU te destabiliseren. De roep om grenshekken neemt toe. Rob de Wijk analyseert de situatie in talkshow M: “Dit zijn de buitengrenzen van de Europese Unie, daar kan het.”

HCSS Digest | Week 45

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How can we protect our vital infrastructure in the North Sea? Will fences and pushbacks become EU policy? What is the People’s Liberation Army capable of today? And what will likely be its capabilities by 2035?

Rapport over waarde van de Noordzee overhandigd aan Marine en Kustwacht

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Namens HCSS overhandigde Frank Bekkers deze week de eerste exemplaren van het nieuwe rapport “The High Value of The North Sea” aan Admiraal René Tas, commandant Zeestrijdkrachten van de Koninklijke Marine, en Jan van Zanten, Directeur Kustwacht Nederland.

New Report: The High Value of The North Sea

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As the size, diversity and importance of sea-based assets and activities increase, whether it’s windmills, undersea cables or offshore rigs , so do the entry points for criminal and terrorist actions, and for disturbances and attacks by state actors. As ‘sea’ becomes more like ‘land’, guaranteeing the security of structures and processes in the North Sea warrants more attention, and could potentially necessitate new approaches.

HCSS Digest | Week 44

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Is Taiwan still defendable? Why does climate change call for innovative military contributions and collaboration? Will the gas price go down now that Gazprom is supplying more gas to Europe? The answer to all you questions? The new HCSS Digest!

HCSS Digest | Week 43

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What can be done about disinformation? Is climate change our greatest global ánd national security threat? What do we do if China attacks Taiwan? Is the West lagging when it comes to hypersonic weapons? Find out more in the new HCSS Digest!