Writings on the Balkans
October 18, 2007
As an alliance of states built on ‘soft power’, it is perhaps not surprising that the European Union has had ambivalent feelings about sanctions from the very first time it imposed them – against the Soviet Union in response to the suppression of democratic stirrings in Poland in December 1981.
The trade embargo against the Soviet […]
October 11, 2007
The killing of ten African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur on 29-30 September has given military planners and analysts pause to consider the dangers of a forthcoming EU deployment to neighbouring Chad.
A source of particular concern is that the EU operation in Chad will have to work closely with a contingent of United Nations police […]
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