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2,190 search results for “contemporary afrika politics” in the Public website

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  Esra Nartok-van der Kist Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Maximilian Wachter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Alexandros Ntaflos Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Joshua Musumi Chibuyi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Global Exchanges. Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World Research output

  Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations.

• Memory and Identity Research project

  Research conducted in this group aims at furthering our understanding of how communities and individuals deal with social change, conflict and trauma through remembrance and commemoration as well as forgetting in the arts.

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• Test certificate could help reopen society, but at what cost? News - 19 May 2021

  On 11 May the House of Representatives voted in favour of a law that will enable some sectors to reopen sooner than planned with the aid of test certificates. Political philosopher Josette Daemen is critical of the new legislation. ‘Just because we get used to measures doesn’t make them desirable.’

• 'Promoting universal values is a good strategy for resilience' News - 12 January 2018

  Many Western defence strategies concentrate on maintaining the status quo. Actively promoting universal values can also be a good strategy for resilience, according to Theo Brinkel, Professor by Special Appointment in Military-Social Studies. Inaugural lecture 15 January.

• Through the revolving door: do parliamentarians anticipate attractive careers elsewhere? News - 17 February 2023

  Political scientist Tim Mickler (Leiden University) receives a grant from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his quantitative research into post-parliamentary positions of parliamentarians. The grant is a result of the SGW Open Competition XS, with the aim of stimulating innovative scientific rese…

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  Ester Blom Study Adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Eline Joor Senior alumni & internship coordinator

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sandra Meddeler Policy Officer / Secretary to the Board of Examiners

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Ian Lau Study adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Wendy Wiersma Administrative processes and systems staff member

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Wencke Appelman Study adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Daniëlle Lovink Study Adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Ylva Klaassen Operational Director

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Marjan Rijnja Teaching Coordinator

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Henk Dekker Emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Debbie Tromper Management assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Anna van Dijk Management/office-assistent

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Pawan Kumar Sen Guest researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Nathalie van Dooren Coordinator Marketing & Student Recruitment

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Judy Spruit Secretary of the Institute Board

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Lies van Heteren Education manager

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Desiree van Drongelen Staff Member Studentregistrations

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Veerle Warnders Official Secretary Board of Examiners

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Nynke Heegstra Study Adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Boyd Leupen wins MSc Thesis Prize 2015 News - 2 November 2015

  Boyd Leupen has won the Institute of Political Science MSc Thesis Prize 2015. With 'Refuting asymmetrical Kantianism: On the moral standing of animals', Leupen completed his Political Science master studies and contributed an excellent piece of scholarly work. According to the jury, his thesis stands…

• Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression Research output

  The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…

• ‘The influence of the media on legislation is limited’ News - 14 March 2017

  News articles have only a limited influence on the course of legislative processes. This is the finding of political science expert Lotte Melenhorst in her PhD dissertation. Defence 21 March.

• Museum Lab Research project

  The Dutch museum landscape is among the most forward-thinking worldwide, in terms of innovations in engaging diverse audiences and stakeholders. Building on the museum studies and art history programmes at Leiden University, the Museum Lab explored conceptual and practical aspects of the museum as a…

• Artistic Truth Research project

  What makes a truth true? Throughout the history of philosophy, numerous theories have been proposed to define what it means for something to be ‘true’. Despite their wide variety, most accounts presuppose that a truth is expressed through linguistic assertations or propositional statements. But can…

• Visiting fellows Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  Every semester, LUCIS invites a scholar to Leiden to provide a lecture series on a topic of their choice. With these lectures, we aim to present state-of-the-art research in Islamic studies to the Leiden academic community and beyond, and to offer students and junior researchers the opportunity to get…

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  Emma Korpershoek Student Ambassador Crisis and security Management

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Mira Burmeister-Rudolph Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Natasha Wood Postdoc

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Small-State Influence in EU Security Governance: Unveiling Latvian Lobbying Against Disinformation Research output

  Sophie Vériter explores a small state’s impact on EU security governance, a hard challenge means against big states in this policy area.

• Europe as A Global Actor? – The Common Security and Defence Policy in Question Research project

  My research project aims to analyze reasons of the European Union’s (EU) inadequacy to develop a strong Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) with regard to the role of main EU member states, namely Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) and find the answer of how the EU overcome the CSDP question…

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  Willem van der Does Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Giles Scott-Smith Dean LUC/Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War Research output

  This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.

• Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order Research output

  The historiography of the Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 is dominated by the personal clash between the principal negotiators, Harry Dexter White of the United States and John Maynard Keynes of Britain.

• La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia Research output

  A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.

• The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 Research output

  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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  Kitty Zijlmans Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arthur Crucq University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities