Entries by Patrick Willemsen

Het beste uit De Strateeg van 2023 (Deel 2)

Ook in 2024 zullen BNR Nieuwradio en het Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies (HCSS) in podcast De Strateeg onder leiding van Paul van Liempt de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen op het internationale toneel en de gevolgen daarvan voor overheden, bedrijven en mensen bespreken. Beluister hier enkele hoogtepunten van het afgelopen jaar!

Tom Driessen joins HCSS as Strategic Advisor Organized Crime & Policing

HCSS is very proud to announce that Tom Driessen will be joining us as Strategic Advisor Organized Crime & Policing. With his considerable expertise in the security field and the nexus between the political and administrative domains, he will provide valuable insight into current security risks within the (inter)national legal order, developments within police policy and the necessary development of a vision and strategy in the field of combating internationally organized crime and modern policing in our society.

Jilles van den Beukel: ’Hoge energieprijzen blijven een zorg’

„Ons probleem is dat wij nog veel fossiele energie verbruiken maar deze nauwelijks meer produceren. In een wereld met toenemende geopolitieke spanningen, waarin energie vaker als wapen wordt gebruikt, maakt dat ons kwetsbaar”, stelt Jilles van den Beukel, energiespecialist bij HCSS (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies), in De Telegraaf.

Column Rob de Wijk: Ik houd mijn hart vast voor 2024

Het zijn onzekere tijden, schrijft Rob de Wijk in zijn column voor Trouw. Westerse populisten kunnen daarom de echte winnaars worden. Helaas zijn die veelal pro-Russisch en anti-immigratie. Dat zorgt voor sociale ontwrichting en leidt tot geopolitieke irrelevantie van het Westen. “Met belangrijke verkiezingen in Europa en Amerika in het vooruitzicht hou ik mijn hart vast voor 2024.”

Strategische Vragen | De Strateeg: Kunnen landen geo-engineering als strategisch wapen inzetten?

Veiligheid en klimaatverandering. Die link wordt steeds vaker gelegd, ook op de afgelopen klimaattop. Maar de tekentafel is leuk, uiteindelijk zullen politici en vooral ondernemers klimaatbeleid moeten gaan uitvoeren. Hoe dat kan? Dat hoor je in deze extra aflevering van De Strateeg van: Laura Birkman, senior strategisch analist bij het Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies, en van Ties van der Hoeven, oprichter van The Weather Makers.

HCSS Annual Report | Geopolitical Due Diligence

For the HCSS Annual Report of 2023, director of political affairs Han ten Broeke looks back at the activities of the HCSS Boardroom initiative: leveraging our experience with corporate geopolitical due diligence, the Boardroom aims to help Dutch and European companies and investor strategies to become more geopolitically shock-resistant. As the world faces increasing geopolitical fragmentation and a decaying liberal international order, HCSS Boardroom supports companies by identifying opportunities and mitigating risks.

HCSS Annual Report | The HCSS Datalab

For the HCSS Annual Report of 2023, data scientist Maarten Vonk looks back upon the interdisciplinary research done by the HCSS Datalab, as well as give some insights on several exciting developments for 2024. Our collaborative approach has consistently yielded insightful outcomes, serving a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients.

HCSS Annual Report | Strategic Technologies and Industrial Policy

Today’s economic great powers – the United States, China and the European Union – are bound by a web of international value chains, writes strategic analyst Joris Teer in the 2023 HCSS Annual Report. They are dependent on each other for key technologies and critical preliminary inputs, and they rely on each other’s good will for the production of end-products. China on one side and the United States and the European Union on the other view each other as rivals again. As a result, the economic great powers have come to heavily rely on parties they distrust for the functioning of their vital sectors and general prosperity.

HCSS Annual Report | Energy and Raw Materials

For the HCSS Annual Report of 2023, strategic analyst Irina Patrahau reflects back on the impacts on the energy markets by the intensification of great power rivalry. Governments experienced firsthand the extent of societal and economic disruption brought by weaponised import dependencies last year. The HCSS Energy and Raw Materials Initiative addresses the ways in which the changing geopolitical landscape affects global energy markets by offering targeted strategic analyses to public and private stakeholders.

HCSS Annual Report | Defence and International Security

The growing conflict of interests and increasing confrontation between the important actors in the world is perhaps the most dominant development of the current era, writes Frank Bekkers, director of the HCSS security programme, in our 2023 Annual Report. And the forecast for the coming years is anything but rosy. In short: the return of great power rivalry and global instability directly impacts the Netherlands and Europe.