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Security by behavioural design Research output
In 2021, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) asked Leiden University to conduct a rapid review of best practices and possibilities for follow-up research on the integration of behavioral sciences in security by design methodologies and projects. This academic field is called security by behavioral…

Cluster Security and Legitimacy Research project
Security and Legitimacy is one of the three organisational clusters of the Institute of Political Science.

“You say security, I say crisis” – Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries in Security Cooperation and Crisis Governance Research project
This project explores the ongoing acceleration of overlapping systemic crises and security threats and their interactions with local, national, and regional processes in a closely interconnected world.

Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present Research project
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…

of a Secret State. The Intelligence & Security Services and their contribution to the National Security State, 1945-1989 Research project
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Of ticking bombs: Western security services against political violence and terrorism Research project
How have British, Dutch, and German security services dealt with political violence and terrorism since the late 1960s; to what extent did they consider these new phenomena as a task and how have they developed activities in order to counter these security threats?

Re-Scaling Security: Histories and Practices of Trans-Local Cooperation Research project
This project is part of a broader research agenda aiming to better understand the relationships between the development of contemporary security concerns and the evolution of forms of security cooperation and crisis governance.

Tim Wuisman Tutor Bachelor Security Studies
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

DiGiuseppe & Kleinberg, ‘Economics, security, and individual-level preferences for trade agreements’ Research output
Citizens’s attitudes towards trade are not only about the (perceived) economic effect. Commerce also has a variety of security implications. Employing an original experiment, political scientists Matthew DiGiuseppe (Leiden University) and Katja Kleinberg (Binghamton University) demonstrate that security…

age? Unpacking the European Union’s quest for strategic autonomy in security and defence Research output
Eva Michaels & Monika Sus examine strategic autonomy in EU foreign policy, tracing evolution from the 1998 Saint-Malo Declaration to its current focus.

Managing Security in Complex Trans-National and Local Settings: EU-Latin American Crime-fighting Efforts Since the 1980s Research project
The project investigates the changing local context of crime dynamics and the responses by selected international organizations and national governments. It places a major emphasis on security management at the trans-national level by investigating intra-regional security cooperation between Latin America,…

Rob de Wijk Professor emeritus International Relations and Security
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

A coalition of the unwilling? Chinese and Russian perspectives on cyberspace Research output
The Hague Program for Cyber Norms, a research program at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, published its second policy brief, in which Dennis Broeders, Liisi Adamson and Rogier Creemers explore aspects of the relationship between China and Russia in cyberspace.

Foreign intelligence in the digital age. Navigating a state of 'unpeace'. Research output
The Hague Program for Cyber Norms, a research program at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, published its first policy brief, in which Dennis Broeders, Sergei Boeke and Ilina Georgieva explore the role of intelligence agencies in cyberspace and the (im)possibilities of oversight and regulation…

Leonardo Lenoci ICT Research and Security Advisor
Faculty of Science