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The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics
When EU member states signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, they did not anticipate the manifold crises in store for them over the following years. Instead of the intended consolidation of a Union which had just gone through its most profound modernisation and biggest round of enlargements, the EU has…
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Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Digital Activism’ by exploring some of the trends in social media activism and scholarship thereof. The authors ask to what extent this literature helps us understand Asian forms of online activism, which forms of activism have relatively done well, and…
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Lectureship in the Political Economy of Japan (1,0 fte)
Humanities, Institute for Area Studies, Japanese Studies
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Aestheticized politics : the workings of North Korean art
This dissertation is a study of North Korean art as a site where politics, history, and culture meet.
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Space debris after Russian missile test: 'Totally irresponsible'
Russia recently blew up a defect satellite. As a result, the amount of space debris in Earth orbit has increased.
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History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present
Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Tsagkroni: Radicalisation and Crisis Management
This book discusses theories of crisis management and the radical right, to shed light on how responses to crisis influence radical right parties in their presence, discourse, and evolution. The book offers a comparative perspective by examining case studies with various traditions of radical right…
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Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens
We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
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Manifesting Mandates: Navigating Ambiguity in UN Special Political Missions
How are top-down directives translated and implemented at mission level in UN peacekeeping?
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‘I didn't do any self-censorship'
President Putin will be officially opening the Netherlands–Russia Year on 8 April in Amsterdam. Leiden Slavist Sjeng Scheijen was responsible for putting together the cultural programme. How much freedom did he have in doing so? ‘The Dutch photography project on the demolition of Sochi districts was…
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Le roi sublime. Overwhelming Politics and Performance under Louis XIV
This project will clarify how these concepts operated in theoretical writings on performance ,this broadened conceptual framework will not only give us a clear view on how sublime effects in performance were theorized, it will also provide us a concrete apparatus to understand the cultural and political…
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Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire
An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period
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Lisanne Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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From Homo Economicus to Political Animal
Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.
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Ben de Jong Discusses the Russians and Their Secret Maps of the Netherlands
Ben de Jong, inlichtingen-deskundige en gastonderzoeker en -docent bij het ISGA aan de Universiteit Leiden, werd geciteerd in een artikel in het Algemeen Dagblad over topografische kaarten die de Russen tijdens de Koude Oorlog gebruikten. De Sovjet-Unie beschikte over een ongelofelijke hoeveelheid…
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about the fate of family and friends, they also face major financial problems. This also applies to Russian students who can no longer access their bank accounts.…
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‘It’s a complete stalemate in Belarus’
What with coronavirus, the American elections and the Brexit botheration, we had almost forgotten that something miraculous happened in 2020: the repressed people of Belarus rallied against dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years. Months later, what remains of the protest?…
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Reading and Transferring the Sublime. The Scholarly Reception and Political Relevance of the Sublime in the Dutch Golden Age
This research will investigate which aspects of On the sublime received attention in the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century and how the sublime found its way in the political and artistic discourse of that time. Thus I aim to shed light on the role of art in politics and society in this…
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Juan Masullo Jimenez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jan Melissen in NRC on the diplomatic situation in Venezuela
The political situation in Venezuela is increasingly complicated. On Monday morning, February the fourth, several EU countries, including The Netherlands, recognised Guiadó as legitimate acting president. Dr. Jan Melissen, attached to the Clingendael Institute and the Institute of Security and Global…
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V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946).
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Rob de Wijk: 'EU wants to end dependence on Russian gas'
On Energiepodium.nl, Rob de Wijk, Professor of International Relations and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, states that the Nord Stream 2 Project, a pipeline for Russian gas into Europe, causes a conflict between geopolitics and commerce.
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History, Classics, Russian Studies and Dutch Studies rank high in Keuzegids Masters
Master studies History, Classics, Russian Studies and Dutch Studies have received the label ‘top programme’ in the Keuzegids Masters of March 2018. The study guide bases its results on the opinion of students (through the National Student Survey) and experts (NVAO).
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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Clara van Dam
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ymre Schuurmans
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Russian cellist and ACPA researcher Maya Fridman organizes benefit concerts for Ukraine
Russian Cellist and ACPA researcher Maya Fridman is organizing many benefit events together with Russian and Ukrainian musicians to raise funds for Giro 555 for Ukraine.
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Victor Posthuma
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Herman Siemens
Faculty of Humanities
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Sine Bagatur
Faculty of Humanities
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Tom Theuns
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nikoleta Yordanova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gisela Hirschmann
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Katharina Natter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Stefan Cetkovic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Philippe van Gruisen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Antoaneta Dimitrova, Bernard Steunenberg and Dimiter Toshkov about the political situation in Bulgaria
In the current political situation of Bulgaria, it seems that a long-term caretaker government is the only viable option at the moment. Dimiter Toshkov, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Bernard Steunenberg of FGGA analyse what the Bulgarian caretaker government can learn from its Dutch counterpart.
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.
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Presentation by Christa Tobler at the Department of Economy in Belfast, Northern Ireland
On 9 January 2020, Christa Tobler gave a presentation which was followed by a discussion, which was announced as follows:
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Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1868
The project examines the political conflict in the Red River Valley of Louisiana between the majority-black Republican Party and the overwhelmingly white Democratic Party by studying the composition and actions of each party.
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Art beyond Japan: Contemporary art in the politics of translation
Investigation of 1.) The whereabouts of the epistemological dissonances in art criticisms on Post-war contemporary art from Japan between two different language realms, in this case in English and Japanese; and 2.) What the dissonances disclose, disturb, and contribute in the process of the establishment…
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Political discourses and the securitization of democracy in post-1991 Ethiopia
This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.
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Ingrid van Biezen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michael Meffert
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Education
BSc degrees: ‘Political Science’, ‘International Relations and Organisations’. MSc degree: Political Science, with specialisations ‘International Organisation’; ‘Dutch Politics; ‘Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Development’; ‘International Politics’; ‘Political Legitimacy and Justice’; ‘Democracy…