abouteurope | 14:30, 27 February 2010
Now that the sense of anti-climax surrounding the appointment of Herman van Rompuy as the new President of the European Council has subsided, it is worthwhile casting a critical eye over the likely role and powers of the new permanent president. Putting contingent factors (such as personality and leadership style) to one side, the new [...]
European Geostrategy | 13:44, 26 February 2010
President Herman Van Rompuy is often poked as a figure of fun. But does his first speech on foreign and security policy reflect a closet Machiavellian, plotting and strategising to flesh out the European interest?
European Geostrategy | 22:42, 24 February 2010
Much has recently been said about the creation of a permanent military headquarters for the European Union. In this article, we explore the reasons as to why such an institution is desirable, for the sake of the improvement of European military command and control.
Jaanika Erne | 0:48, 22 February 2010
Writing academically, one adds scientific value. In legal writing, one best operates within the existing scientific achievements.
Differently from academic writing, legal writing is about composing legal and usually practical documents. The fact that formally legal documents are not academic papers, does not mean that they don’t or shouldn’t have connection with academic research. Still, legal [...]
georgekyris | 12:41, 19 February 2010
During the last European Council meeting, EU leaders made their position towards the Greek economic crisis clear: Greece will have EU’s help if the measures taken by the country fail to tackle the economic problems. In other words, Brussels will make sure that Greece will not need EU’s assistance; towards this direction, EU has proposed [...]
Jaanika Erne | 1:13, 19 February 2010
When I attended the course “United Nations and International Law”, read by Lauri Mälksoo at the University of Tartu, we were shown a film about international conflict resolution, the UN, and the global politics. Unfortunately, I do not remember the name of the film, although I believe that it is quite a well-known one. Though cluster bombs were not [...]
European Geostrategy | 0:51, 18 February 2010
With the rise of an increasingly multipolar world, the time has come for Europeans to invoke their maritime geography once again and look beyond their borders to concentrate on the wider world. The European Union needs to form an immensely powerful navy, which can be used to circulate maritime power around the world and undergird the success of the European economy.
Pietro De Matteis | 14:47, 3 February 2010
By Pietro De Matteis
Such a strong decision was in the air especially in Washington. The US was expecting a new EU after the Lisbon treaty: more coherent, stronger and more comprehensible. An Europe that after about 8 years since the Laeken Convention, that started the path towards EU’s institutional reform, could finally become an effective [...]
Jaanika Erne | 0:01, 1 February 2010
I found the following advertisement from the Legal Writing Professors Blog: „Israel’s first international conference on academic writing, Academic Writing and Beyond in Multicultural Societies, takes place from July 28 to 29, 2010, organized by The Israel Forum for Academic Writing (IFAW) and the Institute of Research, Curriculum and Program Development for Teacher Education (known by [...]
