Since I started working at the Egmont Institute for International Relations I have written a number of policy briefs, which are open access. You find all of them on this page: https://www.egmontinstitute.be/staff/nina-wilen/
2023:
- A coup like no other: Three reasons why the coup in Niger is different from previous coups in the Sahel (and why it’s very serious) with Yvan Guichaoua – Democracy in Africa
- New wine in old bottles? A New EU Regional Strategy for the Great Lakes – with Erik Kennes – EISS
- The UN Security Council and the Future of MINUSMA with Paul D. Williams – Egmont Institute
- Here are Four Things the West gets Wrong about Africa – Egmont Institute
- Le retrait de Barkhane du Mali et ses conséquences pour le Niger – Bulletin Franco Paix
- What space for women in African peace agreements? – Democracy in Africa
- Multi-Layered Violence in the DRC: Is History Repeating Itself? with Erik Kennes for Institut Montaigne
2022
- Times they are A-changin’: Africa at the Centre Stage of the new (II) Liberal World Order – Egmont Institute
- Security Force Assistance in the Sahel is meddling with borders – London School of Economics
- The Intervention Question: Lessons to Learn from Europe’s Military Presence in the Sahel – Institut Montaigne
- What Are the International Military Options for the Sahel? with Paul D Williams for IPI
- Who’s Been Making “African Solutions”? Mapping Membership Patterns in the African Union’s Peace and Security Council with Paul D. Williams – Egmont Institute
- After War – the Backlash against Women – Egmont Institute
- When things fall apart – France’s withdrawal from Mali – Egmont Institute
- Facing a pandemic: African armies and the fight against Covid-19 co-edited with Anne-Laure Mahé – Egmont Institute & IRSEM
- Inclusion is not enough to achieve gender and racial equality in global peace and security, with Marsha Henry, Signe Cold Ravnkilde & Robin May Scott – DIIS
2021
- Belgian Troops for Takuba: What’s at Stake? Egmont Institute
- Justifying Interventions— The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia – Oxford Handbook
- Update of the Strategic Vision 2030: Recommendations – Belgian Ministry of Defence
- The Strategic Committee on Belgian Defence: How to Read the Report with Sven Biscop and Jonathan Holslag – Egmont Institute
- Civil-Military Imbalance in the Sahel – Egmont Institute
- What Belgium Can Do: Proposals for the National Security Strategy with Sven Biscop – Egmont Institute
- The Military in the Time of COVID-19: Versatile, Vulnerable, and Vindicating
- Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned
2020
- A logic of its own: the external presence in the Sahel – El Cano
- When female peacekeepers’ “added value” becomes an “added burden” – Oxford University Press Blog
- Challenges with security force assistance in Niger: Understanding local context and aligning interests – with Pierre Dehaene – GRIP -
- Context matters – Why Africa should tailor its own measures to fight COVID-19 – Egmont Institute
- How the indiscriminate virus reinforced our inequalities and the lessons we can draw from this when it is all over – Egmont Institute
- What’s the ‘Added Value’ of Male Peacekeepers? (Or – Why We Should Stop Instrumentalising Female Peacekeepers’ Participation) – Egmont Institute
2019
- Burundi on the brink again? Identifying risks before the 2020 elections – Egmont Institute
- EEAS Academic Roundtable on Women Peace and Security. Intervention by Nina Wilen – Egmont Institute
- Belgian Special Forces in the Sahel: a minimal footprint with maximal output? – Egmont Institute
- It’s time to build a Gender-Just Peace: Here is how – Egmont Institute
2018
- Peacekeeping: Improving Performance – Dilemmas and Goals – Egmont Institute
You can also find additional policy briefs for other organizations on different topics below:
Wilén, Nina, Le Rubicon: “L’Afrique dans le grand jeu mondial”, 11 January 2023, available here.
Wilén, Nina, Heinecken, Lindy, “Women now make up almost 24 percent of South Africa’s military. Why aren’t they treated equally?”. Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 1 August 2018, available here.
Wilén, Nina, Ingelaere, Bert, “War-torn Congo has been called the ‘rape capital of the world.’ Here is how fighters think about sexual violence”. Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 31 August 2017, available here.