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23 augustus Rob de Wijk bij Radio 1 over het oprukken van de troepen naar Tripolie. (NL) Interview Please note that this interview is in Dutch. For the full interview please click here.
23 augustus 2011 Rob de Wijk bij Knevel en van den Brink over de inname van Tripolie. (NL) Interview Please note that this interview is in Dutch. For the full interview please click here.
Western countries are at loss about how to pressure Bashar al-Assad to end the brutal crackdown on protesters. They do not know whether or not to sanction Syria’s oil and gas industry. They often ask first whether sanctions will end up harming civilians, and second, will they actually work? These questions have relevance but they […]
Exploring Demographic Shifts: Ageing and Migration in a Deeply Uncertain Dynamically Complex World, a paper produced by Erik Pruyt, Thomas Logtens, Govert Gijsbers, Tim Sweijs and Stephan de Spiegeleire in the context of the TNO Strategy and Change program, won the price for the Best Poster Presentation at the Poster Symposium of the System Dynamics […]
For almost four months now the Assad regime have been carrying out horrendous violations of human rights and crimes against the Syrian people: houses bulldozed, tanks in the streets, snipers on roof tops, rape, torture, and indiscriminate killing. The death toll is 2000 and rising. Beyond condemnation of the violence the response of the international […]
For the past five months Syrian President al-Assad has succeeded in withstanding the largest uprising against his regime in eleven years. Now, in the first days of Ramadan, he has embarked on a military campaign, both of a punitive and pre-emptive nature, leading to approximately two hundred deaths in the last three days alone. This […]
Al-Assads’s aggressive maneuvers over the past three days, coinciding with the beginning of Ramadan, the month of spiritual self-reflection, has led to a flurry of policy initiatives in the West, ranging from a power lacking presidential statement by the UN Security Council condemning the violence in Syria, to new sanctions by the EU. Such symbolic […]
In an article for Aspenia Online, Teun van Dongen discusses the terrorist threat from the extreme right. It is easy to see why the Norwegian tragedy has triggered a lot of talk about the resurgence of the extreme right, but we should be very clear about what we mean by that. If the suggestion is […]
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and the Institute for World Policy in Kyiv, Ukraine have for the past year been engaged in a project on ‘Enhancing Ukraine’s Foresight Capacity’. A number of IWP analysts were trained in the HCSS Metafore-method, participated in some HCSS foresight projects, provided summaries of these projects in Ukrainian […]
Teun van Dongen explains in The National Interest Online why negotiating with the Taliban is a really bad idea. The Taliban is no IRA. Diplomacy won’t convince this prickly nemesis to magically disarm and deradicalize. The full article can be read here.
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