Asser Today

Asser Institute and Graduate Institute researcher Dr Marta Bo and Taylor Woodcock argue, in a blog post written for The Global, that there is a lack of discussion on autonomous weapons and criminal responsibility for war crimes at the UN level. The blog post h...

Democracy, rule of law, and multilateralism are values the European Union seeks to embody and promote. But how well does it do so in a global arena? Asser’s new project ‘Global Europe’, launched today, focuses on the EU’s trustworthiness as an international le...

“Since terrorism rarely achieves strategic success, we should not over-react to it. In order to undermine and limit this bloodstained form of politics, we should instead emphasise and use the things that it often does achieve, such as publicity, or revenge aga...

On Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May, the Asser institute will co-organise the 7th edition of the PAX moot court competition. The moot court is part of the EU-funded JUDGTRUST research project, led by Asser researcher Vesna Lazic, which focuses on the Brussels Ibi...

The story of a clash between newcomers and the old residents of cities is as old as the history books. But need it be so? Thursday May 16, Asser’s academic director Prof. Dr Janne E. Nijman opened the seminar A Sense of Belonging in the City: The role of NGOs ...