October 2009 – May 2010 (University Paris-La Sorbonne) At the start of the new academic year (2009-2010), Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP) and Paris-Sorbonne’s University’s Doctoral School of “Modern and Contemporary History” launch a research programme entitled “Europe. Anticipation. Strategy”. Rythm: The programme consists of: . a series of 2-3 ...
Read More »South America – United States : Towards a new regional order, by Hector R. Sanchez (Argentina)
Since their birth the United States had two different foreign policies. Whereas they related to Europe as a peer, in America they developed a policy of expansion [1] and intervention [2] in competition with Great Britain. The US stated the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 [3] (« America for the Americans »). In the 19th century, ...
Read More »Towards a sound economy, By Rudo de Ruijter*
Sometimes money is compared with the blood of the economy. The credit crisis painfully demonstrated, that the economy depends on a permanent infusion of credits. As soon as the banks deliver a bit less credit, enterprises fail and the mass dismissals succeed each other. We are made to believe, that ...
Read More »New priorities for the future EU-Russia Strategic partnership
{{I- Preamble}} {{II- Strategic and operational perspective}} {{III- Work synthesis}} Introduction 1. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of finance and economy: how to contribute to found a new sound and balanced economic and financial order? 2. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of security and defence: how to ...
Read More »New priorities for the future EU-Russia Strategic partnership
{{{TABLE OF CONTENTS}}} {{I- Preamble}} {{II- Strategic and operational perspective}} {{III- Work synthesis}} Introduction 1. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of finance and economy: how to contribute to found a new sound and balanced economic and financial order? 2. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of security and defence: ...
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Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope 2020 (Moscow, December 18-19, 2008) TABLE OF CONTENTS I- Preamble II- Strategic and operational perspective III- Work synthesis Introduction 1. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of finance and economy: how to contribute to found a new sound and balanced economic and financial order? 2. ...
Read More »Anticipation seminar – New priorities for the future EU-Russia Strategic partnership (Moscow, 18-19 Dec. 2008)
The Centre of European Studies of MGIMO and the Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP/E2020) jointly organise the {{third EU/Russia GlobalEurope anticipation seminar in Moscow on December 18th and 18th,}}. This interactive seminar will gather diplomats and experts from the EU and the Federation of Russia, with an aims to defining ...
Read More »3rd GlobalEurope EU-Russia Anticipation Seminar / ‘New priorities for the future EU-Russia Strategic partnership’
Co- organised by European Study Institute of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Laboratoire européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP/E2020) ___________ {{Preamble}} The world is going through a historic crisis putting an end to the systems and powers which dominated the world since the end the Second World War. ...
Read More »‘New priorities for the future EU-Russia Strategic partnership’
3rd GlobalEurope EU-Russia Anticipation Seminar Moscow (MGIMO), December 18th-19th, 2008 Presentation Co- organised by European Study Institute of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Laboratoire européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP/E2020) Preamble The world is going through a historic crisis putting an end to the systems and powers which ...
Read More »From ‘Pax Belgica’ to ‘Eigen Volk Eerst’: The Causes and consequences of the rise, decline, and fall of the Belgian unitary state
Painting by Gustave/Gustaaf WAAPERS, Episode des journées de septembre 1830 sur la place de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles / Tafereel van de Septemberdagen 1830, op de Grote Markt te Brussel (1835), Musée d’Art Ancien / Het Museum voor Oude Kunst, Bruxelles/Brussel ————- {Et mane, dicit dominus, Est tui regnis ...
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