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HCSS was honoured to welcome Defence Minister of Estonia Hanno Pevkur for a roundtable yesterday, along with a delegation including the Dutch ambassador to Estonia Özlem Canel and the Estonian ambassador to the Netherlands Lauri Kuusing.
HCSS Principal Scientist Stephan de Spiegeleire will be giving a keynote speech on AI and Analytical Support to Defence Capital Investment Prioritization, at the SAS-178 Research Workshop in September. The workshop will feature presentations on emerging technologies that have the potential to transform portfolio decision making.
Ukraine will need to decide where to put its main assault forces before its long-anticipated counteroffensive hits its “decisive phase,” according to new analysis. These are still the earliest stages of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, HCSS experts Frederik Mertens and Paul van Hooft analyze in Newsweek. This kind of early phase is characterized by testing for the weaknesses in Russia’s defenses.
HCSS Subject Matter Expert Friso Stevens will give a presentation (online) next Tuesday, June 20, at 3 pm Amsterdam time on contemporary Chinese foreign policy. In the presentation, he draws on China’s particular socio-historical, ideational, and political sources to analyze how Xi Jinping’s “Community of Common Destiny” and “Thought on Diplomacy” are designed to revise the existing US-led liberal order in East Asia.
Ministers Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius (Justitie en Veiligheid) en Mark Harbers (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) hebben dinsdag in Den Helder een werkbezoek aan de Kustwacht en de Koninklijke Marine gebracht, waar zij o.a. een toelichting over het HCSS rapport “High Value of the North Sea” kregen.
HCSS strategic analyst Irina Patrahau attended the 2nd high-level joint defence and energy conference in Stockholm on 8 and 9 June 2023. The meeting, organized by the European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy (DG ENER), brought together more than 80 participants from European defence and energy sectors to discuss opportunities to collaborate and support the decarbonization of the defence and security sector. Irina’s contribution to the conference focused on the geopolitics of critical raw materials in energy technologies and defence applications in the context of growing strategic competition.
Sinds de jaren 80 daalde het aantal kernwapens ieder jaar verder. Tot nu: er zijn voor het eerst in 30 jaar juist méér kernwapens dan een jaar eerder. Waarom? En wat betekent dat? Dat zet Dennis Hoogeveen samen met HCSS senior strategisch analist Paul van Hooft op een rij in deze nieuwe aflevering van podcast Lang Verhaal Kort voor NOS op 3.
Hoe gezond is de Nederlandse rechtsstaat? De Nederlandse rechtsstaat scoort consistent hoog in internationale metingen, maar het vertrouwen in onze rechtsstaat is historisch laag. In dit nieuwe HCSS rapport onderzoeken we de problematische trends achter dit verschijnsel en verkennen we scenario’s voor de toekomst.
A one-man dictatorship. That’s what Friso Stevens calls Xi Jinping’s China. This does not automatically mean that the country is an immediate military threat to Europe, says the foreign affairs expert who recently completed his doctorate on the rise of modern China. But how reassuring is this? ‘China likes to make others dependent on it.’
Het einde van de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne is niet in zicht en een voortslepend conflict is waarschijnlijk, schrijft HCSS directeur onderzoek Tim Sweijs in een Nederlandstalig artikel voor Atlantisch Perspectief, het tijdschrift van de Atlantische Commissie. Over Strategische Rivaliteit, Aktes, d’Artagnan, fait accompli’s, Navo Partners en Stekelvarkens, Hybride en Weerbaarheid, Nucleair Escalatie-management, en het ‘Badense Rijk’ aan onze Oostgrenzen: een Agenda voor Afschrikking in Tijden van Confrontatie.
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