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NATO Counter-Terrorism and Belgium’s New Article 376: From National Resilience to Allied Security
NATO’s counter-terrorism challenge is increasingly one of prevention. Belgium’s new Article 376 offers a timely national case on how national prevention and resilience support Allied security.
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NATO’s December Ministerial: Strategic Implications for Europe on the Road to the Ankara Summit 2026
Between The Hague and Ankara, the December 2025 Foreign Ministerial showed an Alliance adapting to a harder strategic environment, and why Europe must build the political, military and industrial weight…
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Hybrid Airspace Alerts in Belgium: What Recent Drone Incidents Reveal for Belgium, the EU and NATO
How recent airspace alerts highlighted governance and resilience needs in a multi-actor security environment: drones as hybrid tools, national governance, the EU and NATO dimensions, the cognitive front, and policy…
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NATO’s 5% Pledge: U.S. Pressure, European Division. Strategic Analysis & Future Scenarios
Intro At the NATO Summit in The Hague, Allies committed to spending 5% of GDP on defense by 2035. This historic pledge marks a dramatic shift, but also a deepening…
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Navigating the Southern Neighbourhood : NATO’s Strategy in the MENA Region
As a cornerstone of transatlantic security, NATO has evolved its mission to address the complex security challenges posed by the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With a geopolitical…
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Abraham Accords Summit: Towards a New Middle East Alliance
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with the foreign ministers of Israel, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates for talks in Negev Summit, centered on shared security concerns.…
