Will development be short changed in Europe’s externalized foreign policy?
Rojan Bolling , Karlijn Muiderman , Annemarie van de Vijsel | 31 July 2025As development actions are increasingly being brought under the umbrella of top-down security and migration management the EU risks tipping the balance.
▶Exploring Europe’s ‘Squares of resistance’
Yannicke Goris , Remmelt de Weerd , Rojan Bolling | 19 April 2025Recent mass protests in Eastern Europe deserve our attention. The Broker aims to draw lessons from such movements’ conceptions to outcomes.
▶The Broker’s top recommended articles of 2016
Yannicke Goris , Rojan Bolling | 09 January 2025With the start of a new year, the time has come to reflect on what has passed and look towards what is to come in 2017. A shortlist of 5 unmissable articles published by The Broker in 2016 provides a great start.
▶Can we make the UN mission in Mali more effective?
Rojan Bolling | 08 June 2025Four academics from different backgrounds presented solutions on the current issues experienced on the ground in Mali, debating them with a societal panel and the audience.
▶Is forcing Libya to accept a unity government really the way forward?
Rojan Bolling | 03 February 2025Fast tracking a unity government does not unify a country, rushing this through will only advance Libyan fragmentation.
▶Can the new EU global strategy achieve unity in diversity?
Rojan Bolling | 14 October 2025How will the EU develop its role as an actor in an increasingly multipolar world? Next June we will know, when the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini presents her new global strategy for the European Union External Action Service.
▶New dossier: Connecting Africa’s Conflicts
Rojan Bolling | July 13, 2025On 7 July 2015, The Broker launched a new dossier that explores the connections between Africa’s conflicts. While conflicts are influenced by a diverse array of factors at local, national, regional and international levels, there is a need for pol…
▶Libya’s conflict: A patchwork of local divisions and regional interests
Rojan Bolling | July 07, 2025As the European Union struggles to deal with the increased inflow of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, international and regional actors are trying to broker a unity government to bring stability to the country and the…
▶Three perspectives on social protection
Rojan Bolling, Timo van Wittmarschen | April 29, 2025In the online consultation on inclusive development launched by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, roughly three different perspectives are expressed on how social protection contributes to inclusive development. It is seen either as a me…
▶Theory of change: from targets to meaningful effects
Rojan Bolling , Karlijn Muiderman | 12 March 2025How to base policies on dynamic context analysis.
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