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• Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis Research output

  Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011

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  Maria Spirova Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Honorata Mazepus Guest employee

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Marijn Nagtzaam Lecturer

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Denny van der Vlist PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Senior assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Elina Zorina PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Aleksandra Khokhlova PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Financial Governance in the European Union after a Decade of Economic and Political Crises Research output

  Introducing five papers about of the impact of crises on the governance, decision-making, and institutional design of the Euro Area, political scientists Valerie D'Erman (University of Victoria, Canada), Paul Schure (University of Victoria, Canada) and Amy Verdun (Leiden University) summarise the 'lessons…

• Women as Agents of Change: How has Women’s Political Mobilization Restructured Political Networks and Changed Local Governance? Research project

  Will women’s increasing electoral participation in rural India improve governance? On what terms are women being incorporated into politics – through existing patriarchal and clientelist relationships, or through collective action against the patriarchal and clientelist system?

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  Kathleen Brown PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Tim Mickler Senior assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Emmy Koning External PhD Candidate/guest

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Frank de Zwart Guest

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Dorota Mokrosinska Senior University Lecturer Moral and Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Castenmiller Lecturer

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Matthew Longo Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Tom Louwerse Director of Research / Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Carina van de Wetering Lecturer

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Patricio Silva Professor of Modern Latin American History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Havar Solheim Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to COVID-19 - Implications for Women and Children Research output

  The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores responses to the pandemic by international, regional, and local institutions, multilateral action, and crisis prevention efforts at different levels of governance,…

• Socio-political Changes, Confessionalization and Inter-confessional Relations in Ottoman Damascus from 1760 to 1860 Research output

  Ms. Anaïs Massot defended her thesis on 26 January 2021

• Politics, pandemics, and support: the role of political actors in Dutch state aid during COVID-19 Research output

  How do governments distribute resources across economic sectors during a crisis? And why do some sectors receive more than others? The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgency of these questions. In this paper, we explore the extent to which a political economy…

• EU Foreign Policy in practice: selected cases from Latin America Research output

  Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.

• The Nahua-Tlaxcalteca Calendar during the colonial period and the contemporary perception of time in Santa Catarina (Acaxochitlan, Hidalgo, México) Research project

  How was time understood during the colonial period by Tlaxcaltecan Naua communities? What is the relationship between time, spirituality and ritual in the present-day Naua community of Santa Catarina? What does this tell us about the strengths and values of Indigenous heritage and about the impact of…

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  Simon Otjes Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Henk te Velde Professor of Dutch History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dirk Alkemade Training Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe Research output

  Arco Timmermans, professor by special appointment in Public Affairs at the Institute of Public Administration, is co-editor of this book focused on comparing engagements in policy advisory systems.

• Political Ideas of B.G. Tilak Research output

  On 12 April 2022 Alok Oak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Generating Freedom: Hegel's conception of political order Research output

  In the light of the fragility of current liberal democracies, this dissertation aims to contribute to rethinking political order by reconstructing Hegel’s account in the Philosophy of Right.

• Politically motivated crime in light of current migration flows Research project

  This project addresses the occurrence of political and ideological biased crimes in light of the recent migration influx in European countries.

• Bureaucratic Selection and Politics: Evidence from Teachers in Brazil Research project

  Does becoming a public sector employee change a person’s political beliefs, behaviors and interactions with the state? Do public teachers hold the same values as other professionals and the general Brazilian public?

• Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy (MA)

• Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)

  In the master’s programme Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present at Leiden University you will be at the forefront of a new approach to understand how national politics and identities in Europe are conceived.

• The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics Research output

  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…

• Performing the Sublime. Theatre & Politics in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Research project

  The project will clarify that in the search for these new means the treatise On the sublime of ps.-Longinus played a crucial role. However, the project will also place the theatre performances in a broader social and political perspective. These public events and the theatre performances suggest that…

• Partnership with Roosevelt Institute gives impetus to American Studies News - 18 April 2017

  It's easier to understand Trump's America if you have a sound knowledge of the country's history. Research on the US has been given an impetus with the renewed Roosevelt Institute for American Studies. The institute in Middelburg reopened on 20 April with Leiden University as a key partner.

• Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online Research output

  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…

• Aestheticized politics : the workings of North Korean art Research output

  This dissertation is a study of North Korean art as a site where politics, history, and culture meet.

• History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• A world without American domination? News - 7 February 2019

  America’s dominance of the world stage is coming to an end. These were the words of Professor Amitav Acharya in his guest lecture in The Hague on 5 February. ‘But the world really won’t be plunged into immediate chaos.’

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  Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan Postdoc / guest

  International Institute Asian Studies

• Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR Research output

  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…

• Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life Research project

  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?

• Warnings: The Complicated Journey from Alert to Action in (Inter)national Politics (WARN) Research project

  The WARN project seeks to understand why certain warnings fail to reach and impact decision makers in time to avert crisis.

• Manifesting Mandates: Navigating Ambiguity in UN Special Political Missions Research project

  How are top-down directives translated and implemented at mission level in UN peacekeeping?

• Le roi sublime. Overwhelming Politics and Performance under Louis XIV Research project

  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…