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Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices
In this article, Lianne Visser contributed to the understanding of why collaborative governance is a challenging response to wicked problems.
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An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality
On 18 September 2019, Huw Llewellyn defended his thesis 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.M. Blokker and Prof. L.J. van den Herik.
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To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events
The authors delve into the varying degrees to which institutions across different nations connect foreign events to their respective country's domestic affairs.
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Scarcity and the State
Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and…
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Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing
The first book ever on information-theoretically secure multiparty computation
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Post-Soviet Nostalgia. Confronting the Empire's Legacies
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas.
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Conversations of Motherhood
The subject of motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power and identity. It is also at the heart of any consideration of women’s writing. Conversations of Motherhood sensitively charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related topics within the cultural specificities of South African…
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Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire
Perec’s Lieux project consists of texts describing the author's places of memory, photographs, personal documents and ephemera collected in the street.
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Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe
Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment.
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The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil.
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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
From The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music:
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Why Minor Powers Risk Wars with Major Powers: A Comparative Study of the Post-Cold War Era
Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this book studies asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials.
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Schulhofer-Wohl, Quagmire in Civil War
Why do some civil wars experience quagmire, a situation in which belligerents are trapped in fighting? To explain this puzzle, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) analyses the overlapping strategic interactions between foreign powers and the warring parties. Studying…
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Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert: Philosophers on Telepathy and Other Exceptional Experiences
Scientists rarely take ‘paranormal experiences’ seriously. Furthermore, in the recent past the concept of the ‘paranormal’ did not even exist in philosophy. William James, who extensively studied mediumistic phenomena, labelled them ‘wild beasts of the philosophical desert’.
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Creating and Re‐creating Tangos: Artistic Processes and Innovations in Music by Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann
In this dissertation the author digs into the constituent elements of River Plate tango in order to decode how specific musical materials were organized and combined by four outstanding musicians: Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann.
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Proceedings
Wiley-Blackwell and the editors of Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata have agreed to publish the proceedings of SIP2021 as a special issue of the journal, as has been the case for previous SIP meetings.
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Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the dutch criminal courts, c.1600-1810
In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts?
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Gendered empire. Intersectional perspectives on Dutch post/colonial narratives
Yearbook of Women's History.
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Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" in Wartime Societies
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945:
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The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration.
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Mrs. Naunakhte & Family
The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina
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The Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) in Sahidic Coptic
Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary
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Ideological bias in constitutional judgments
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, is a co-author of this publication that explores the nature of the ideological bias in a constitutionally relevant decision.
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Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian
Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive treatment and are still a controversial topic. This work contains the first systematic investigation of the matter from a…
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Yordanova et al., Agenda Control and Timing of Bill Initiation
Governments in parliamentary democracies have limited time in office to fulfill their policy agendas. So, how do they optimise the timing of legislative bills to assure their passage and avoid lengthy parliamentary scrutiny? This question is especially puzzling under coalition governments, in which…
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Mazepus, Veenendaal, McCarthy-Jones & Vásquez, A comparative study of legitimation strategies in hybrid regimes
A comparative analysis of legitimation strategies in tree hybrid regimes: Russia, Venezuela, and Seychelles.
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International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining
On dinsdag 26 juni 2018, Linlin Sun defended her doctoral thesis ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en Prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.
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New Perspectives on Desistance Theoretical and Empirical Developments
This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences.
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Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis
This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.
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The Articulation of a 'New Neolithic'
The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)
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The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and other Stories (1610-1795)
In this volume, Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of Chinese Batavia.
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Conrad's Shadow Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths?
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European Border Communities
European Border Communities provides an overview of interdisciplinary research on the dynamics, challenges and effects of cross border mobilities and the management thereof.
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Regulatory Burden from a Different Perspective
On Wednesday 25 January 2017 Esmeralda Vergeer will defend her doctoral thesis Regeldruk vanuit een ander perspectief (Regulatory burden from a different perspective). The supervisor of the research is Professor W.J.M. Voermans.
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FEATHERS
When we read a text, we think we know who wrote it, but in the early modern period, manuscript production was often a collaborative or ‘socialised’ enterprise involving secretaries and scribes who physically wrote what the author dictated.
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Unearthing Literature: The Case of Hussein Barghouti
Haneen Omari defended her thesis on 29 October 2019
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The implementation of value-based healthcare: a scoping review
This study helped to identify and summarize how value-based healthcare (VBHC) is conceptualized in the literature and implemented in hospitals. Furthermore, an overview was created of the effects of both the implementation of VBHC and the implementation strategies used.
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Balance between an Emerging Regional Legal Order and Inter-regional Cross-border Insolvency – Challenges Faced by CICIA
In pursuit of solutions to China’s inter-regional cross-border insolvency cooperation, my doctoral dissertation provides 10 original recommendations accompanied with comments, which are entitled “China’s Inter-regional Cross-border Insolvency Arrangement” (CICIA).
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Road to 2023: Our Common Agenda and the Pact for the Future
Together with colleagues from the Stimson Center and in the framework of the Global Governance Innovation Network, Dr. Joris Larik has recently published the report
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Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems, A Graph- Based Approach to RTB system classification
On 29 January 2019, Robbert van Eijk defended his thesis 'Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems, A Graph- Based Approach to RTB system classification'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik.
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Formative Assessments and Teacher Professional Learning
How can formative assessment be used to promote teacher professional learning? This book contains various studies into professionalization approaches and courses in which formative assessment is used with a view to teacher learning.
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Financial Collateral
November 2020 saw the publication of the book ‘Financial Collateral; Law and Practice’. This book was published by Oxford University Press, and edited and authored by Professor Matthias Haentjens. Other authors who contributed to the book are Anthony Zacaroli (High Court, Chancery Division), Yael Diamant…
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De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving
De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving (The Lightness of Literature: Engagement in the Multicultural Society) is a plea for the social relevance of literature. The book delves into an age-old debate about literature and social engagement, which has recently been reinvigorated…
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Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities.
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Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions
This article studies the perceived legitimacy of EU enforcement actions.
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Victorian Fairy Tales
Victorian Fairy Tales
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On the Term 'Environmental Refugee': Normative Assumptions and Empirical Realities
The authors compare assumptions about normative utility of the term 'environmental refugee' with empirical evidence compared to 'environmental migrant'.
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Planning for a World beyond COVID-19: Five Pillars for Post-Neoliberal Development
In this opinion article published in World Development, the authors present five research and policy priorities. While it is clear that ‘pluriversal’ designs need to guide the way forward (Kothari et al 2019), defining a set of key pillars can provide direction and purpose across this pluriversality.…
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Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920
The territories that would make up what is today the Republic of Zambia officially became British in 1891. However, this did not equate to an on-the-ground presence of colonial authority capable of affecting the destiny and daily lives of people.
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Islamophobia and Radicalisation
A measured yet theoretically innovative exploration of how Islamophobia and radicalisation intersect and reinforce each other.