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The US–Israeli war against Iran has caught the European Union ill-prepared. Divided over how to respond, the EU may yet be drawn into a war over which it has no control, and it is now under increasing pressure from President Trump to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the urgency of this new war in the Middle East,...

Few works on China have managed to balance historical depth with present-day relevance as effectively as Frans-Paul van der Putten in China Resurrected: A Modern Geopolitical History. Much of the existing literature on China's rise rests on two dominant interpretive frameworks: first, expectations that China's economic and social developments will...

China is niet meer weg te denken van de internationale politieke podia. De regering stuurt internationaal meer diplomatieke posten aan dan enig ander land, inclusief de Verenigde Staten. Die posten bestaan nog niet zo heel lang: het eerste gezantschap werd in 1877 geopend in Londen, andere volgden spoedig. Waarom vond de keizer die ineens nodig?...

"To anticipate developments twenty or thirty years ahead, policymakers need appropriate instruments. These should be developed at the European level," says Frans-Paul van der Putten, an analyst at the Clingendael Institute, who welcomes the port strategy. In his view, the risks associated with such investments can only be assessed over longer time...

According to Frans-Paul van der Putten, Senior Research Associate at the Clingendael Institute, Cosco is sending a clear signal. Its interest in Zippel indicates that Chinese companies want to expand their involvement in European logistics – despite ongoing trade and geopolitical tensions between the EU and China and stricter EU scrutiny of Chinese...

'De kans dat China en Chinese bedrijven een probleem worden voor Europese havens is heel klein', stelt Frans-Paul van der Putten, die zich bezighoudt met de geopolitieke rol van China en is verbonden aan het Clingendael Instituut. Hij adviseerde de Europese Commissie om met de Europese havenstrategie te komen. Naar zijn weten is er nooit bewijs...