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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day…
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Bart Schuurman in Dutch regional newspaper 'de Gelderlander' on the threat of unwarranted jihadism fatigue
On 27 September 2019, Bart Schuurman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs spoke to Dutch regional newspaper 'de Gelderlander' about the decline in attention for jihadism.
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Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programme “Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective”
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a research visit at one of our partner universities? Then you might want to join the Leiden team of the EU-funded Marie Curie Staff Exchange Network on non-western…
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Call for papers 'Nationalism and International Order' (21-23 November 2018)
Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism encourages narrowly defined and zero-sum security policies; it works against compromises and consensus; it undermines international trust and cooperation.…
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Lotte Melenhorst: 'No evidence for mediatisation of lawmaking'
The widespread idea that politics is mediatised needs to be revised. Although media attention heavily influences some political processes, this is not the case when it comes to lawmaking. Lotte Melenhorst, a political scientist at Leiden University, analysed three heavily covered legislative processes…
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Nynke Heegstra
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Debbie Tromper
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sandra MeddelerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Judy SpruitFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lies van HeterenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ian Lau
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wencke Appelman
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wendy Wiersma
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ylva KlaassenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marjan RijnjaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eline Joor
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ester Blom
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Desiree van DrongelenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Daniëlle Lovink
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Henk DekkerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nathalie van DoorenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anna van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Pawan Kumar SenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Just to be sure... At any cost?
Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…
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Nicholas Vrousalis wins EURIAS fellowship at Aarhus University
Political philosopher Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) has been awarded a EURIAS Fellowship at Aarhus University’s Institute for Advanced Study (AIAS). From from 1 October 2018 to 31 July 2019 Vrousalis will work at the Danish research institute on his project ‘Inequality against Freedom: Economic…
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Chinese delegation visits International Institute of Air and Space Law
From 26 August until 5 September 2019, a group of 20 Chinese government officials, industry representatives and academics attended an intensive course on space law and policy at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, organized in cooperation with Avans+ in Breda.
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New research seminar series Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) is pleased to introduce a new research seminar series. The FGGA Research Seminar will be a forum for the presentation and discussion of current, high-quality research on topics covered by the faculty.
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Natasha WoodFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Georgios DikaiosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emma KorpershoekFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Esra Nartok-van der KistFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Justin SpruitFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Benjamin Kester
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained
In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections promise to be the most closely contested in years, with the opinion polls showing very small differences and everything at stake, including for Europe. Alp…
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Political instability in Bulgaria
The Centre d'Étude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL, Université libre de Bruxelles), in collaboration with Department of Political Science of New Bulgarian University (Sofia), the Center for the Study of Political Parties and Representation (CSPPR, Leiden University), Centre for East European and International…
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Bastiaan Rijpkema publishes Militant Democracy: The Limits of Democratic Tolerance with Routledge
The English edition of Rijpkema’s Weerbare democratie is published in Routledge’s Extremism and Democracy series, one of the leading series in the field, edited by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin.
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van der DoesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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papers: Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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Looking at forced migration through an interdisciplinary lens
Researchers at Leiden University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have launched an initiative to learn more about the experiences of migrants travelling through the Darién Gap, with a focus on forced migration.
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'
Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently, the outlines were not negotiated for very long, which has its advantages and disadvantages. 'Over the next few weeks, we are mainly going to see the…
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Elevated minds: The Sublime in the public arts in 17th-century Paris and Amsterdam
The aim of this project is to study the influence of Longinus’s treatise ‘On the sublime’ on practice and theory of architecture and theatre in seventeenth-century Paris and Amsterdam.
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"Getting Organized"
In January 2014, the research project The Promise of Organization hosted a fruitful three-day conference:
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…