2,751 search results for “international relations” in the Public website
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Rebels and Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence
Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at a particular point in time increase in intensity and why do actors in war decrease the level of violence at other points? Duyvesteyn discusses the potential explanatory variables…
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marco BronckersFaculty of Law
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Densua MumfordFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ruben Gonzalez VicenteFaculty of Humanities
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Tom BuitelaarFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerald AchoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Alyssa Akkerman
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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John-Harmen ValkFaculty of Humanities
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Gisela Hirschmann, Coronavirus: A Global Crisis Waiting for a Global Response
It is often said that the true character of a person is only revealed in a crisis. In these days, the coronavirus causes concern about the true state of the multilateral system. Political scientist Gisela Hirschmann (Leiden University) is worried about the future of multilateralism.
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Michael SampsonSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Verdun, How the European Union is Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis
The coronacrisis makes painfully clear that a transboundary crisis requires a transboundary response. The European Union could play a key role, but that has not happened so far. Political scientist Amy Verdun (Leiden University) explains why.
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Leiden University in The Hague praised by L’Express as one of Europe’s ‘schools of power’
Leiden University is featured by French magazine L’Express as one of Europe’s leading ‘schools of power’, highlighting its Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague and its role in training future leaders in politics, diplomacy, and securi…
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Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
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How International Organisations Can Resist Political Shocks
What makes some international organisations more likely to succumb to crises where others manage to survive or even thrive? And what can international organisations do to become resilient and withstand existential challenges? Political Scientist Gisela Hirschmann (Leiden University) studied the example…
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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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Daniel Thomas
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Jue WangFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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A Call for Interdisciplinary Research on Architecture and International Relations
The latest forum in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy highlights the rich potential for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of architecture, diplomacy, and international relations. These contributions, spanning from the early American republic to the contemporary era, reveal how diplomatic spaces…
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Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining?
Valentina Carraro explores the relationship between overlapping UN human rights institutions, specifically the treaty bodies and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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The collective securitisation of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik
In this article, Sophie Vériter examines the EU’s unprecedented ban on Russian state media following the invasion of Ukraine, using securitisation theory
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The European Union and the United Nations in Global Governance
Madeleine O. Hosli, Professor of International Relations, wrote this book in which she analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations (UN) as an international, global governance institution.
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Ayokunu AdedokunFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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DiGiuseppe & Kleinberg, ‘Economics, security, and individual-level preferences for trade agreements’
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…
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Blarel, India-Israel at 25: Defense Ties
Why did India develop a strong military partnership with the state of Irael, after having ignored it for 42 years? How could both countries develop defense ties in spite of limited political leadership involvement? Finally, what are the prospects for defense relations as India grows to become one of…
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Dutkiewicz, Casier & Scholte (eds.), Hegemony and World Order
Does hegemony—legitimated rule by dominant power—have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes…
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde van MeegdenburgSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ramesh Premaratne GanoharitiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
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A coalition of the unwilling? Chinese and Russian perspectives on cyberspace
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.
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Digiuseppe & Poast, ‘Arms versus Democratic Allies’
In theory, states can gain security by acquiring internal arms or external allies. Yet the empirical literature offers mixed findings: some studies find arms and allies to be substitutes, while others find them to be complements. Political scientists Matthew Digiuseppe (Leiden University) and Paul Poast…
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Marina CalculliFaculty of Humanities
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Corinna Jentzsch
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Nicolas Blarel
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Martijn MosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Cecilia-Louise von IlsemannFaculty of Humanities
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Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Emotions play a key role in EU politics. This article examines how emotions influence the EU’s response to international crises and norm violations.
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Elitsa KortenskaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Carina van de Wetering
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Niels van WilligenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Vincent ChangFaculty of Humanities