Global governance

The sun rises in the East: A plea for identity, nations and international understanding

Immanuel Kant: “Peace is the masterpiece of reason.” A quick look at current world events is enough to reveal that the world is further...

The Taiwan Saga

The storm that has been gathering over the South China Sea in recent years has now reached Taiwan’s shores. The question is whether...

Spatial Conquest by Other Means: China’s Belt and Road Initiative

....BRI is a novel spatial security arrangement and part of China’s grand strategy for rebalancing global order. Uncertainty persists and...

Rebalancing Asia

A chapter with Jan Lüdert, Ph.D. "Spatial Conquest by Other Means: Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Geopolitical Impact" is out...

A Clear View Eastwards: Russia and Germany

Oblast Kaliningrad-Königsberg: at the heart of German-Russian cooperation ...Roots, earth and homeland – these are difficult topics for...

Assessing Securitization: China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Napoleon warned: “Let China sleep; when she awakes, she will shake the world”. As China awakens, the world around it is rumbling with the...

Changeons notre façon de penser

Identités et frontières : Comment peut-on respecter et assurer le droit à l’autodétermination des êtres humains sans autant diviser ?...

China, Europe and the G-zero world

What does it mean to live in a world without global leadership? Where is the European Union heading? What impact will Trump’s “America...

Belt&Road - the conquest of space

China’s meta-strategy and Europe The driver behind this commercial project is, above all, a new ideology being advanced by the CPC....