🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

❗Executive Course❗ 3 days. 16 hours. Geopolitics. Policy. Technology. Join us in June 2025 for our new "Brussels 360" executive course! Your unique learning and networking opportunity in Brussels! #Brussels360 Apply now🔸 csds.vub.be/brussels-360/

❗New Speakers Announced, More to be Added❗ Want to untangle the intricacies of European defence and alliances in this new era of contestation? Join us on 14 March (exclusively online) for our Defence & Statecraft Forum 2025. Register today 🔸 csds.vub.be/event/deals-do…

Had enriching exchange of views with Prof Luis Simón and colleagues CSDS covering India's foreign policy & strategic outlook, increasing importance of 🇮🇳 🇪🇺 relations in a multipolar world, and current geopolitical developments. Thank him and CSDS for the partnership.

Must-read piece by Lotje Boswinkel for War on the Rocks on why European allies must up their game long range strike cc: 🇪🇺 EU Defence and Space NATO ACT European Defence Agency Angus Lapsley CSDS warontherocks.com/2025/03/europe…

Wondering what this whole debate about the French nuclear umbrella is all about? Check out Elie Perot’s excellent piece on its opportunities and limitations

What can Europeans do to strengthen deterrence should the U.S draw down its engagement in Europe? To find out listen to this terrific CSDS podcast with Lotje Boswinkel Elie Perot & Daniel Fiott

Delighted to see this finally published. In this collective report, we outline a (hopefully!) politically realistic and strategically meaningful vision for NATO’s China and Indo-Pacific agenda csds.vub.be/wp-content/upl…

‼️Brussels 360 Speakers‼️ Join us and Luis Simón (CSDS) on the #Brussels360 course to discuss and learn about US grand strategy and its effects on European security. 🐦 Apply by 23 April 2025 for early-bird fees! Apply today🔸 csds.vub.be/executive-cour…

Latest piece with Tongfi Kim @tongfi-kim.bsky.social on levels of analysis in wedge strategies👇👇

Check out this piece by Tomasz Szatkowski Excellent analysis on a critical subject for Euro-Atlantic security

📢 Policy Dialogue ‘Trade, geopolitics and the EU’s global role in an era of uncertainty’ 🗓️ 08/05. 15.00h CEST 📍 European Policy Centre (Brussels) 📲 #EUTradeDialogue ⤵️ Info: realinstitutoelcano.org/en/activities/…

Why don't know who the next Pope will be, but we know our research is having an impact! Antonio Calcara & Luis Simón's JEPP article on the future of the defence sector is one of the most read articles in the journal over the past year. Read🔸 tandfonline.com/action/showMos…

Thoughtful piece by Alicia GarciaHerrero 艾西亞 via TheWire on EU-China economic relations

Check out this excellent Peterson Institute & CSDS brief on finance and great power competition

Check out this excellent brief on critical infrastructure protection underwater

This was an excellent event!

❗Register Now❗ "Imagining a Post-American Europe: The Future of Europe’s Deterrence Architecture" with Gideon Rose, Tomasz Szatkowski, Lotje Boswinkel & Luis Simón. 🗓️ 14 May 2025 🕙 15:00-16:15 📍 Press Club Brussels Register here🔸 csds.vub.be/event/imaginin…

This was an excellent lecture! Congrats Antonio Calcara #ThaoPham riccardobosticco Mahmoud Javadi

To strengthen CSDS and our China expertise, we are so excited to welcome Olivia Cheung to our team as a China Fellow. Olivia has a proven track-record of cutting-edge research on China. Welcome Olivia! More info🔸 csds.vub.be/researcher/oli…

❗New Report❗ "Hanging Together or Hanging Separately? Europe and the Indo-Pacific in United States-China Rivalry", by Luis Simón, Daniel Fiott, Octavian Manea, Zack Cooper and Toshi Yoshihara. Read now🔸 csds.vub.be/publication/ha…