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Refugees across the Mediterranean: causes and consequences<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Misleading optimism<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Emerging powers in their regional context<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Peacekeeping, mediation and humanitarianism in a multi-polar world<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The day the foreign policy bubble will burst<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Turkey and Brazil – keepers of peace<\/a><\/h3>\n

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China\u2019s foreign policy dilemmas<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Broker has started a new series on Emerged States. We kicked off with the articles Turkey turns the tide and Brazil braves new waters. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t25 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tEach year, the Spring Summit of the EU is followed by the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. This is the third year that I have been invited to this meeting of politicians, public opinion leaders, diplomats and young people from the US an…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t06 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe uprising in North Africa and the Middle East calls for a thorough rethinking of the European Union’s and its member states’ policies towards the region. Europe\u2019s reaction to the recent events in its backyard has been slow, ambivalent and witho…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Patterns in the dynamics of insurgencies<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 February 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe second day of the working group zoomed in on the identification of patterns in the dynamics of insurgencies. Wikileaks data on violent interactions between insurgents and counter-insurgency forces (CIGACTs) had been scrutinized for patterns in…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Complexity science as an \u2018insight engine\u2019 <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t24 February 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico is like a Mecca for complexity science. Physicists, biologists, cosmologists, anthropologists, playwrights and even novelists spend their time here, breaking down disciplinary boundaries. This time the focus is…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Fragile states: the easy answers won’t bring us further<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t22 February 2025
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\n\t\t\tTomorrow morning I will board a flight to Santa Fe in New Mexico. I am expecting to land in a Wild West-style landscape, which seems to me particularly well suited for a conference on US foreign policy on Afghanistan. ‘Foreign policy as a complex…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A long and bumpy road<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2025
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\n\t\t\tA global foreign policy outlook needs a radically new mindset and new forms of cooperation at both the national and international levels. Reaching truly integrated policies will inevitably imply political struggle.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Special Report: Reshuffling power<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEllen Lammers<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 10, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe two articles in this special report explore the shift that is needed from the national to the global, not just in outlook but especially in policy agendas, institutional set-up, cooperation between sector ministries, governance and funding. Ho…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Turkey turns the tide<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 10, 2025
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\n\t\t\tContrary to what its critics think, Turkey is not ‘adrift’ but shaken by the pitch and roll resulting from a fundamental rethinking of Turkishness.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Fourth Wave of democracy engulfing the Arab world<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t02 February 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe current developments in the Arab world should be a wake-up call for policy makers and opinion leaders in the West. What is happening in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries puts democracy support back on the foreign policy agenda. Stability…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Pernicious parallels<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMariano Aguirre<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDecember 06, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe United States’ protracted fight against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the spectre of the Vietnam war. Mariano Aguirre reviews recent literature on US wartime policies from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Nederland in de wereld <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Broker organiseert een online debat over de vraag: wat is de positie van Nederland in een snel veranderende wereld, en wat moet dat betekenen voor het brede Nederlandse buitenlandbeleid en de visie ten aanzien van globalisering en ontwikk…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Obama: \u2018End hollow promises that are not kept\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t22 September 2025
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\n\t\t\tWhatever we think about the US or about the MDGs, a speech by an American president is always worth analyzing. Development, in the end, is about power and power relations. And the US is still the greatest power in the world.On Wednesday, the final…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Great expectations<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 13, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe Dragon\u2019s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, by Deborah Brautigam. Oxford University Press, 2009, 397 pp.A review by Daniel Large\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Pocket-sized foreign policy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 30, 2025
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\n\t\t\tDescribed as a \u2018pocket-sized medium power\u2019, the Netherlands has always struggled with its size. It has never felt satisfied, like a teenager in front of a mirror. Within NATO, the Netherlands has for years wanted to be the biggest of the small. Wh…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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International peacemaker<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSven Gunnar Simonsen<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 30, 2025
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\n\t\t\tNorway is a generous donor and enjoys high visibility as a peace broker. Public support is high, despite criticism from some quarters. It now wants to rejuvenate the UN and work more closely with the EU.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Europe’s International Role<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 22, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe decisions that are made in the autumn of 2009 will shape Europe\u2019s international role in the future.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Aid targets still to be met<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomesh Vaitilingam <\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
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\n\t\t\tThe UK\u2019s New Labour government has been a vocal participant in international development debates. The Conservative party, should it come to power in 2010, promises to keep up the efforts.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Denmark\u2019s global role<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKnud Vilby<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 02, 2025
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\n\t\t\tDenmark was among the most generous aid donors from 1960 to 2000. A new government in 2001 reduced Danish assistance considerably and put more emphasis on security issues. Denmark now has a renewed focus on aid, particularly in Africa.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Boosting Swiss aid<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 02, 2025
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\n\t\t\tSwitzerland is among the world\u2019s richest countries, yet its government has been tight-fisted with development aid contributions. In 2008, parliament increased the aid budget, but many NGOs say it\u2019s not enough.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Research the track record of European aid<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTorbj\u00f6rn Becker<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 19, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThere is no doubt that a lot still needs to be done when to achieve the MDGs (millennium development goals) and other important development goals. There is also no doubt that Europe could play a very important role in this process. However, it is…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\u2018All these problems are an opportunity for Europe\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 16, 2025
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\n\t\t\tSimon Maxwell is the director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London. He was one of the initiators of the ERD.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Green pastures for all<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 16, 2025
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\n\t\t\tIn the late 1990s, the development bureaucracy in Brussels was the target of heavy criticism. The different branches of European foreign policy devoted more time to infighting than to finding solutions to the new challenges in the world. Things ar…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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In search of a strategy<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrans Bieckmann<\/a>, Mari\u00ebtte Heres<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 29, 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working to create a more knowledge-oriented organizational culture. But at the same time it is losing its internal capacity for strategic thinking, a crucial attribute in an era of globalization, inte…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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China in the balance?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 29, 2025
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\n\t\t\tChina has an increasingly influential voice in global issues such as world trade, conflict management, energy supply security and sustainable development. In June 2006, the Netherlands government presented a policy memorandum, Shaping a Relationsh…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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