It poured down when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, three months before 9/11. The now 46-year-old American fought in Iraq, did research in Afghanistan and stands in Leiden today, defending his dissertation on…

On Monday, 4 July 2022, the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme was commemorated in the iconic Academy Building in Leiden. Students and guests were welcomed by the Program Director, Professor Madeleine Hosli.

The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…

The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…

The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.

There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?

Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations (LUCIR) is widely regarded as an expert on civil wars and conflicts. Her new book, Rebels and Conflict Escalation,…

Conference

Symposium

War on the European Continent, a complex relationship on the main geopolitical stage between the two superpowers the US and China. What about Europe? Are the European Union and NATO up to manage a situation where the “known unknowns” make forward looking policies extremely complicated? Is the EU after…

Reports on discrimination against cultural, religious or ethnic groups in the Netherlands often exclude anti-Asian racism, even though reported cases of anti-Asian racism have increased significantly, especially since the corona pandemic. How is ‘Asian’ defined in media and public discourse? What is…

Lecture, CHiLL series

CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

Lecture, IIAS/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture

In this roundtable organised by the MA International Relations degree programme, Drs Henderson, Links and Wang will consider the impacts on non-European states of Russia’s war on Ukraine. We will hear about: the impact of the grain shortage on Middle Eastern states and the perspectives of certain African…

Lecture, Seminar

The wars that Vietnam fought in the 20th century claimed millions of Vietnamese lives. An estimated 1.2 million died while fighting for the Vietnamese communist state and were recognized and honored as martyrs. Nearly half of these martyrs are either buried as unknown combatants in state-designated…

Lecture

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Seminar

Debate, Roundtable

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Lecture

Symposium

In their April seminar, The Hague Program on International Cyber Security welcomes Daniel Moore for a talk on his new book Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare. This seminar will be held online on Zoom. You can register here. About Offensive Cyber Operations Cyber-warfare is…

After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…

Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.

For their research many neuropsychologists use the brain scanners at the LUMC. At the start of the pandemic, the rules for visiting the hospital became stricter and a large amount of psychology research looked as though it would fall through. Thanks to good protocols the researchers can now pick up…

Africa is the EU’s closest neighbour and shares with it a long, if conflicted, history. The EU is also Africa’s most important partner with regard to investment, trade, and development assistance. But the nature of this partnership is changing. Africa is growing, demographically and economically, a…

Debate, Career Talk

PhD student Jie Luo will talk about The Effects of Learning in Morphologically Evolving Robot Systems Simultaneously evolving morphologies (bodies) and controllers (brains) of robots can cause a mismatch between the inherited body and brain in the offspring. To mitigate this problem,…

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Lecture, CHiLL series

Lecture

For well over a century, Indian Ocean Arabists (de Goeje, Ferrand, Tibbetts, Freeman-Grenville), using primarily linguistic (and biological) arguments, have posited that Waqwāq (also Wāqwāq, Wāq al-Wāq) is one place or another, one life-form or another. It is now Madagascar, now Sumatra; now a milkweed,…

2024 was a remarkable and eventful year for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. In this year overview, we look back month by month at the key events and developments.

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Lecture

Career and apply for jobs

University ceremony

Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…

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