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Biography

Navy Captain (OF-5) Kurt Engelen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS), where his research fields include Eastern Europe – with a focus on Russian foreign policy and war doctrine –, the Arctic region and strategic foresight analysis in the security domain.
Kurt Engelen is a Belgian navy officer with a combined military, industry and academic background in international politics and conflict studies. During his latest assignments, he was a staff officer in charge of cooperative security and crisis management at the Belgian military representation to NATO (2015-2018), Head of the European Union section at the Belgian Defence staff strategy department (2018-2020), Belgian Delegate to the Politico-Military Group of the Council of the EU (2020-2022) and, Defence Counsellor to the Ambassador of Belgium to the Political and Security Committee (2022-2024). During his tenure at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, he held the positions of Deputy Military Representative (2022-2023) and Acting Military Representative to the EU Military Committee (March-June 2023). He has also represented Belgium in the Steering Committee of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) (2022-2024). Read more

Expertise

Russian foreign policy
Russian war doctrine
Eastern Europe
Arctic region
European affairs and crisis management
EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
Strategic Foresight Analysis (SFA)

Publications

Kurt Engelen, « Les projets capacitaires mariti-mes de la coopération structurée permanente répondent-ils aux besoins capacitaires de l’UE et de l’OTAN ? » (prestation d’approfondissement, École royale militaire, 2021), https://www.academia.edu/48907407/Les_proj ets_maritimes_PESCO_r%C3%A9pondent_ils_au x_besoins_de_lUnion_europ%C3%A9enne_et_de _lOTAN.

Kurt Engelen, « L’intégration de la défense européenne, moteur de la solidarité transatlantique, » Revue militaire belge, n° 19 (juin 2020) : 67-74, https://www.defence-institute.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rmb-19-art-05.pdf.

Kurt Engelen, “Why Cold War Is Not Such A Bad Idea,” Belgian Military Journal, N° 13 (December 2016) : 113-123, defence-institute.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/rmb-13.pdf

Kurt Engelen, “Is Cold War 2.0 Our Best Available Option?” (in-depth research paper, Royal Military Academy, 2016), https://www.academia.edu/24071607 /Is_Cold_War_2.0_Our_Best_Available_Option

Kurt Engelen, “The Reunification of Cyprus and its Influence on NATO–EU Relations” (master thesis, Centre européen de recherches internationales et stratégiques, 2016), https://www.academia.edu/7143257/The_Reu nification_of_Cyprus_and_its_Influence_on_ NATO_EU_Relations