2,153 search results for “global transformations and governance challenges” in the Public website
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Governance of Violence (MSc)
What is the nature and scope of violence? Who offends, and in what context? Who are the victims? And how can we design suitable intervention and prevention strategies? In this track, you will be familiarised with the many faces of violent offending, to provide the knowledge and tools to understand,…
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Bram Klievink: 'The government’s biggest AI challenge is that no system is ever neutral'
Using artificial intelligence is more complicated for the government than for companies. Bram Klievink, Professor of Public Administration, aims to identify the problems and find solutions.
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Public Administration: Multi-Level Governance
The public sector is increasingly a multi-level system, with interactions between public and private actors on the national, sub-national (provinces, regions) and international level and various public, semi-public and private organisations that perform public tasks. In this minor students pay attention…
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Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power and Diplomacy
Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power and Diplomacy is based on a selection of papers presented during The Hague Program for Cyber Norms' inaugural conference Novel Horizons: Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace from 5-7 November 2018 in The Hague. The volume is edited by Dennis Broeders and Bibi van…
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Research Programme Colonial and Global History
The Colonial and Global History Research Programme of the Leiden University Institute for History combines a deep curiosity of transcultural processes such as imperialism, (de)colonization, and globalization with critical historical research on regional societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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New journal: Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
Perspectives on Public Management & Governance (PPMG) is dedicated to theory development and conceptual work challenging and advancing the field of public affairs.
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Public Governance & Civil Society
How and why governments engage with civil society as well as how civil society organizes itself and exerts political influence constitute the key focus of the research programme Public Governance & Civil Society. As such, this research programme offers unique expertise within the field of public administration…
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Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
References to nature and the environment in the Caribbean literary and the contemporary age of globalization.
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The Survival of Pliny in Padua. The Botanical Renaissance and the Transformation of Classical Scholarship
‘The Survival of Pliny in Padua. The Botanical Renaissance and the Transformation of Classical Scholarship’ in: Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries, ed. by K.A.E. Enenkel. Intersections 29 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, forthcoming autumn 2013), pp. 327-62.
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Michiel Tjepkema
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Involvement of host and bacterial factors in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram-negative plant pathogen belonging to the family Rhizobiaceae, is the causative agent of crown gall disease, which can affect many plant species including agronomically important ones.
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Symposium on Political Parties and Government Survival in Latin America
On Monday 4 September, Professor Christopher Martinez, from the Universidad de Concepción (University of Concepción), Chile, was invited by the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law to introduce his forthcoming book at our university.
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Global Affairs
The minor Global Affairs is built on two pillars of International Relations: International Security and International Political Economy. This minor aims to provide students with the tools and knowledge to understand the most important global trends and challenges.
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Global Interactions
Fostering multi-polar perspectives that engage more connected, nuanced and pluralistic understandings of the world. Global Interactions encourages and supports research that provides significant new insights on these global processes across time and space.
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Gender equality, cybersecurity, and security sector governance
In this article, James Shires and Tatiana Tropina, assistant professors at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, map the relationship between gender equality and cybersecurity governance as a component of good security sector governance (SSG). Here, it highlights the way in which cybersecurity…
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Global Uprisings
This research project is supported by an NWO Aspasia grant, DeepDish TV, crowd-sourced funding, and the Democracy and Media Foundation.
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Sheltering 10 billion people in a warming and resource-scarce world: challenges and opportunities
Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.
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Madeleine Hosli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism (MSc)
In the track Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism you will be familiarised with the academic debate regarding these contested concepts.
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Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
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Algorithmic governance
Artificial intelligence could help make the work of public sector organisations, professionals, policy- and decision makers more effective, more efficient, and ideally could make it more rationalised and evidence-based.
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Esteban Szmulewicz on political fragmentation and governance deficit in Chile
Esteban Szmulewicz, PhD candidate at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden University and expert on decentralisation issues, gave an online presentation of his research before the subcommittee on Political System, Constitutional Reform and Form of State in Chile and reported…
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Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development
Are you interested to learn more about frontier innovation thinking and practices? Do you want to explore the societal relevance of frugal innovation? Are you up for a multidisciplinary challenge? Do you want to combine theory and practice? If you are answering these questions affirmatively, you are…
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Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition…
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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and continuity in disguise: The political economy of agrarian transformation in lowland Tajikistan
Irna Hofman defended her thesis on 10 January 2019.
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Explorations in History and Globalization
Considering the ways in which the ‘global turn’ is changing the theory and practice of historical disciplines, Explorations in History and Globalization engages with the concept and methodology of globalization, challenging traditional divisions of space and time to offer a range of perspectives on…
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Challenges in Global Affairs
Do you want to know more about the todays’ challenges in Global Affairs? Check out the second edition of the “Challenges in Global Affairs” E-book 2016!
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Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR
This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising turn’ in International Relations (IR), it takes stock of more than 30 years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric limitations, and explores what ‘thinking globally’ means in…
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Improved hard real-time scheduling and transformations for embedded Streaming Applications
This thesis addresses the problem of designing performance and energy efficient embedded streaming systems, that is, systems which process a stream of input data coming from the environment and generate a stream of output data going into the environment.
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Who opposes? Causes and consequences of government-opposition cooperation and distinctiveness in parliament
The main objectives of this project are to measure and explain government-opposition distinctiveness and to study its consequences for democratic legitimacy and vote choice.
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New dean Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
The Executive Board of Leiden University has decided to nominate Prof. Dr. Kutsal Yesilkagit dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, from 1 January 2016 on for a period of 3 years.
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Global Ethnography (MSc)
Do you want to carry out your own three-month research project? Then Global Ethnography is the path for you! This Master's specialisation allows you to conduct a customised three-month ethnographic field research, learn how to study global issues at the local level, and develop excellent social scientific…
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Global Music: recasting and Rethinking the Popular as Global
Vertrekkend vanuit een communicatief perspectief en concentrerend op mediatiseringsprocessen, formuleert deze dissertatie een alternatief voor het probleem van equivociteit binnen de studie naar populaire muziek.
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Consular diplomacy's first challenge: Communicating assistance to nationals abroad
Jan Melissen, Senior Fellow International Relations and Diplomacy at ISGA, researched the topic of consular diplomacy in a digital age. Specifically: the communicative challenge.
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The Bulgarian governments' response to Covid-19
Emerging from the first wave relatively unscarred to an increase in infections. This research analyses the response from the Bulgarian government to Covid-19.
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The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration provides a complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day.
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Global Leadership Centres Roundtable
The Leiden Leadership Centre is a member of the Global Leadership Centres Roundtable (GLCR). The Global Leadership Centres Roundtable is the international network of university-based leadership centres.
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Tatiana Tropina
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Taking Place: Parrhesiastic practices of social transformation within local forms of theatricality
How can theatricality act as a mediating process between public space and public as ‘audience’? Does the presence of an observer change the nature of the observed and if so, how?
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Extra challenge
Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme?
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Global Political Economy (MA)
The specialisation Global Political Economy of the master’s in International Relations at Leiden University provides you with a cutting-edge understanding of the world economy and its social and political foundations.
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Global Archaeology (MA)
With the unique programme in Global Archaeology at Leiden University you will explore the archaeological past of Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia, or the Americas. You address the impact of global developments on the area of your choice. The courses prepare you for a career as a regional archaeologist…
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Densua Mumford
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Tim Enwerem
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Dennis Broeders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Extra challenge
Leiden University offers a variety of extra challenges next to your required curriculum.
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Programme structure
In the master's specialisation Global Ethnography, will follow several courses that aim to make your research project as successful as possible. From writing an academic research proposal to the complex task of writing up data once you return from the field. Each student also receives individual supervision…
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Transforming data into knowledge for intelligent decision-making in early drug discovery
Promotor: A.P.IJzerman Co-promotor: A. Bender
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Extra challenge
Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme? With options like Honours College and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can add extra depth, intensity and EC to your study.