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Everyday Lived Islam in Europe Research output
This book offers a new direction for the study of contemporary Islam by focusing on what being Muslim means in people’s everyday lives.

Outdoors: Embodied Ethnoracial Inequalities and Outdoor Recreation in Europe Research project
Through a comparative analysis of participation in outdoor recreation in Europe, this project seeks to investigate how social inequalities are embodied.

Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Theatrical Entertainments for the State Journeys of English and French Royals into the Low Countries Research project
One way for governments to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests is through direct outreach and communication with the population of a foreign country. This is called public diplomacy. Historians such as Helmer Helmers and William T. Rossiter have shown that printed media were already…

Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation Research project
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.

Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resisting against, Europe's borders News - 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Grensverhalen’. The series will be published online in September, and will be used as teaching material in various courses.

Collaboration with Leiden University: Rector of College of Europe visits News - 30 November 2023
Frederica Mogherini, Rector of the College of Europe, visited Campus The Hague on 23 November for the official launch of the Europe Hub. This new interdisciplinary platform for research and teaching at Leiden University focuses on the social and governance challenges facing Europe.

The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international Research output
Malte Riemann examines the evolution of the mercenary concept. He suggests that notion of mercenary emerged in 19th-century Europe.

Michiel Luining on the future of Orbán in Europe News - 21 March 2019
It has been crackling within the European People's Party (EPP) for months, but is it also going to explode? Michiel Luining, lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University, gives an explanation of the suspension of Fidesz, the party of the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán,…

DISMANTLE: Disability and Mobility Aids in Northwestern-European Textual, Literary, and Artistic Evidence, 1100-1500 Research project
A mixed qualitative/quantitative approach to medieval disability aids using both literary and artistic sources.

Understanding and analysing changes in poverty among the elderly across 16 European countries using decomposition approach Research output
Caminada et al. examine elderly poverty across 16 European countries (2005-2022).

EU-STRAT: ‘The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries: An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment’ Research project
What should the EU do to support Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova? How can the European Union adapt its policies towards these countries in a very difficult and challenging geopolitical context?

Europe Hub launched in European Parliament: ‘A bridge between research and policy is vital’ News - 24 February 2025
How can groundbreaking research help Europe tackle the huge challenges it faces? At the launch of the Leiden Europe Hub, academics and policymakers discussed this in the heart of European democracy: the European Parliament.

Rick Lawson on the battle for the presidency of the Council of Europe News - 21 June 2019
Will Belgian politician Didier Reynders become the new secretary-general of the Council of Europa? At the end of January he submitted his candidacy and he now only has one rival: the Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marija Burić.

Burden Sharing for What? NATO Implications of Three US Visions Research output
In this article, Linde Desmaele examines the dilemmas created by US burden sharing policies from the perspective of Washington's European protégés.

De Verbranders, a podcast on Europe's borders and resistance against them, is online News - 12 October 2021
De Verbranders, a podcast produced by PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR/VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW/CAOS), is online! You can now listen to the first episode on Soundcloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Episodes of the podcast will be introduced in various courses this year.

Luuk van Middelaar in European newspapers on Europe’s response to war in Ukraine News - 15 March 2022
In an essay published in three prominent European newspapers, Professor Luuk van Middelaar takes a close look at Europe’s role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ‘Europe shows plenty of political energy, but what is still lacking is strategic cool-headedness, in facing a nuclear power.’

2 november: Lezing Lamberto Zannier over Europese veiligheid News - 3 November 2015
Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), gave a lecture on ‘The OSCE, a bridge between East and West and a platform for dialogue on European security’

EuDEco Report on the legal analysis (D2.2) Research output
D2.2 comprises the in-depth legal analysis of the initial heuristic model, focused on addressing, in more detail, the main legal concerns for data reusers in the European data economy. This detailed analysis of the legal propositions presented in D2.1 is supplemented by an analysis of the technological,…

80 Years of Peace in Europe? Event - 15 May 2025
Debate, Roundtable

EuDEco report on the analysis of framework conditions (D1.2) Research output
D1.2 reports on the findings of an analysis of framework conditions relevant in the context of the data economy from a legal, a socio-economic and a technological perspective. The analysis is a key foundation for the creation of an initial, heuristic model of the European data economy. The deliverable…