Entries by paula@hcss-site

VPRO Bureau Buitenland: Iran deal staat op losse schroeven

VPRO Bureau Buitenland sprak met o.a. Tim Sweijs over de uitspraken van de Amerikaanse president Trump en de Iraanse president Rouhani over de nucleaire deal tussen Iran en de Verenigde Staten.  Beluister het radio fragment hier terug. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA

Will Trump’s First UN assembly put ‘America First’?

Since entering office in January, Trump has shown by pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change that he is willing to follow through on promises to back away from international engagements.But Trump’s team has also scaled back on its most scathing criticism of the UN in recent months, and its requests […]

HCSS moves to a new office on September 16, 2017

HCSS moves to a new office on September 16, 2017. Our new address is: Lange Voorhout 1, 2514 EA, Den Haag.

Cyber Security Week 2017

From 25 September until 29 September it is Cyber Security Week in The Hague.  HCSS will host a workshop of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) on Tuesday 26 September with Uri Rosenthal, Marietje Schaake and Olaf Kolkman with the Title: “International norms, Cyberstability and the future of the Internet”. This will be […]

Foreign and security policy starts at home: the consequences of the PopSov revolution

HCSS’ latest study ‘The rise of Populist Sovereignism: what it is, where it comes from and what it means for international security and defense’ looks at the foreign and security policies of 17 Populist Sovereignist political parties and analyzes the implications for international security and defense.

As Germans prepare to vote, a mystery grows: Where are the Russians?

In 2015, suspected Russian hackers broke into the computer networks of the German Parliament and made off with a mother lode of data — 16 gigabytes, enough to account for a million or more emails. Ever since, German politicians have been watching nervously for the fruits of that hack to be revealed, and for possible […]

Radio Free Europe Podcast on China’s New Silk Road

Radio Free Europe Majlis podcast looks at the effects of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) trade connectivity initiative on Central Asia, sparked by the recent HCSS report A Road To Riches Or A Road To Ruin? The Geo-Economic Implications Of China’s New Silk Road. Sijbren de Jong, one of the authors of the report joined the […]

10 years HCSS: Swept along with events in the Middle East

“And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you” the old line from the Pink Floyd song goes. But at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, this is not because (as the song suggests) we have been lethargic, but rather because we have progressed at a great pace in analyzing global trends […]

Poetins arm reikt ook tot in Nederland

We worden de laatste tijd doodgegooid met de term ‘fake news’. Maar hoe dreigend is het? En hoe bestrijd je fake news? Generaal Wilfred Rietdijk luidt in een interview met de Volkskrant de noodklok. Volgens de strategisch adviseur Nationale Veiligheid en Cyber bij Defensie moet er snel een breed gedragen organisatie komen die digitale dreiging, […]