Fighting in Chad should prompt EU re-think
If the European Union is to succeed in Chad, it will need to design an integrated response, covering political, development and military action alike
Associate Senior Policy Fellow
United Nations system; European security and defence policy; Africa; Western Balkans
English
Richard Gowan is an associate fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
He is currently UN director at the International Crisis Group, and was previously research director at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation. He has taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Stanford in New York, and wrote a weekly column on multilateralism (“Diplomatic Fallout”) for World Politics Review from 2013-2019. He has acted as a consultant to the UN on peacekeeping, political affairs, and migration.
If the European Union is to succeed in Chad, it will need to design an integrated response, covering political, development and military action alike
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