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How has Covid affected defense priorities across Europe? How can America turn the tables on China in the Pacific? And how can we solve the Covid vaccine shortage? All of this – and more – in the latest HCSS Digest! The attempt to secure US hegemony over the Pacific leaves the US vulnerable to being […]
Het debat over wie wanneer welke vaccins krijgt geleverd, krijgt soms hysterische trekjes. Even de feiten: een jaar geleden brak de coronacrisis in volle hevigheid uit. Farmaceuten gingen op zoek naar vaccins en ontwikkelden die in recordtempo door goede samenwerking en investeringen door overheden en de EU. Vervolgens werden ze in hoog tempo goedgekeurd, zodat […]
Het AstraZeneca-vaccin werd lange tijd gezien als hét vaccin dat ons uit de coronacrisis zou trekken. Hoofdreden is dat het vaccin makkelijker te bewaren is. Maar toen kwamen de leveringsproblemen. AstraZeneca kon de gemaakte afspraken niet nakomen aan de EU over het aantal vaccins dat het kon leveren waarna het moddergooien tussen de partijen ontstond. […]
As the pandemic set in, the unprecedented economic crisis and breakdown of collective action it brought on were expected to hamper European defense priorities. Even before the pandemic, Europe was under severe internal and external stress and so the pandemic was expected to undermine European influence in its regions of interest. Yet one year on, analysis […]
US strategy in the Western Pacific is based on a fundamentally flawed premise – that relinquishing control over the maritime commons will necessarily lead to China filling the vacuum. That is the position taken by our Senior Strategic Analyst Paul van Hooft in his latest article in “War On the Rocks”. According to him, there […]
From China with love, here’s your new HCSS Digest, answering all your questions about the future of NATO-Turkey relations, robotics and autonomous systems in the Dutch army, Biden’s foreign policy and more! As the US retreats from its leadership role in Europe, Turkey has pursued an increasingly independent defense policy, producing tensions with fellow NATO […]
De gemiddelde Europeaan is niet gek en ziet heel goed wat er in de wereld aan de hand is, dacht ik bij het lezen van een recent onderzoek van de European Council on Foreign Relations. Je hoeft kennelijk geen professor in de internationale betrekkingen te zijn om haarscherp de impact aan te voelen van de verkiezing van […]
Deterrence is not only about stopping a nuclear bomb. It’s about shaping your opponent’s behavior. We need new concepts for Cross Domain Deterrence (CDD) to address today’s challenges. Read all about it in a piece by Tim Sweijs & Samuel Zilincik on the Essence of Cross Domain Deterrence. Deterrence is about convincing adversaries to refrain from […]
On Thursday February 18, the Netherlands Atlantic Association organized a debate on American Foreign Policy: “Biden’s new transatlantic agenda and Europe’s soul searching process. With the new engagement from the White House towards Europe, hopes run high that transatlantic relations under President Biden will quickly return to a state of pre-Trump ‘normalcy’. But how realistic is this […]
De Nederlandse Landmacht is bezig zichzelf ingrijpend en blijvend te veranderen. Steeds meer aandacht en geld is er voor een belangrijke innovatie: robotica en autonome systemen. Die systemen nemen steeds meer werk over dat eerst door mensen werd gedaan. Hoe ver is ons leger hiermee? Wat zijn de voordelen en wat de heikele punten? En […]
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