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• Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States: Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective Research output

  Political Scientist Katharina Natter (Leiden University) advances theory-building on immigration beyond the liberal state and demonstrates how immigration politics can provide valuable insights into the inner workings of political regimes. Connecting scholarship from comparative politics, international…

• Comparing the Biographical Backgrounds and Radicalization Dynamics of Lone-Actor and Group-Based Terrorists Research output

  Why does one person radicalize to involvement in terrorist violence within a group-based context, while another engages in this form of violence alone?

• Analyzability and semantic associations in referring expressions: A study in comparative lexicology Research output

  This thesis is a sample-based typological study of formal and semantic patterns in terms for a selection of referring (

• Migrant Workers or Working Women? Comparing Labour Supply Policies in Post-War Europe Research output

  This paper written by Alexandre Afonso, Assistant Professor and Researcher at Leiden University, argues that gender norms and the political strength of the left were important structuring factors regarding why European countries choose migrant labour to expand their labour force in the decades that…

• Empire's Violent End. Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962 Research output

  In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and…

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  Frank de Zwart Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Gert Jan Geertjes Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics: a comparative case study of US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of Iran, Libya Research output

  What are the conditions under which coercive diplomacy can compel a State to abandon its nuclear weapons program?

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  Zeeshan Mansoor Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Willem Zwalve Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Guus Kroonen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tijmen Pronk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Hidden Complexities of the Frankish Castle Research output

  Social Aspects of Space in the Configurational Architecture of Frankish Castles in the Holy Land, 1099-1291

• General Linguistics

• Migrants in between. The construction of illegal and temporal migration, 1945-2000 Research project

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• Differences that make all the difference. Gender, migration and vulnerability (migration to the Netherlands 1945-2005) Research project

  The proposed project evaluates how the vulnerability of migrant men and women was constructed in political, public and media discourses, and how differences in the constructed vulnerability influenced the decision to migrate, the migration process, and the subsequent settlement process.

• Historical Linguistics

• Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism Research output

  In 2019, Aliaksandr Lukashenka marks a quarter of a century as the first, and so far only president of the Republic of Belarus. This new book by Dr. Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, offers the most up-to-date analysis of government and politics in a country usually…

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  Jos Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

• Neotropical bat species: an exploration of brain morphology and genetics Research output

  In this thesis, I investigated the neurogenetic properties of Neotropical bat species. Bats represent the second largest mammalian order (Chiroptera) in the world, with Neotropical bats constituting about 13% of the total number of bat species.

• The EUROLITHIC project Research project

  Nowadays, most Europeans speak a language belonging to the Indo-European language family. However, very different languages were spoken on our continent before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. The EUROLITHIC project tries to find answers to the question which languages these were and where they came…

• The morphology of Dutch Research output

  Oxford University Press has published a revised and expanded edition of The Morphology of Dutch (first edition published in 2002).

• A Grammar of Khwarshi Research output

  This dissertation presents a grammar of Khwarshi, a Nakh-Daghestanian language.

• The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis Research output

  This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences.

• Program 2026

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  Gerard Breeman Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Katharina Natter Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Denny van der Vlist Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Maria Spirova Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Mateo Cohen External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Unusual Institutional Arrangement of a Non-Authoritarian, Yet Controlled, Democracy Research output

  In this article, Gerrit Dijkstra and Jos Raadschelders from the Institute of Public Administration, argue that Bosnia-Herzegovina survives so far on the basis of negative legitimacy.

• Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia Research output

  Provides a cutting-edge comparative political economy analysis of welfare and inequality across ten East Asian countries.

• The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek Research output

  This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century.

• CompaRe conference and call for papers on lean integration News - 23 June 2023

  This conference explores the potential of regional collaboration for meeting some of the key challenges facing our world today, and to do so in a smarter and leaner way than ‘just’ copying the EU model. It does so in the context of CompaRe, the Leiden Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative…

• Frederik Behre on Comparative regional integration research in action News - 19 July 2022

  During an Erasmus+ research stay in Rwanda, Frederik Behre gave several guest lectures to bachelor's and master's students enrolled in the various law programmes of the University of Rwanda. In the course of his four-week research stay, Behre organised a series of highly interactive lectures with the…

• A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali Research output

  This dissertation provides a description of the language Tadaksahak as it is spoken by the Idaksahak, a people group of about 30,000 living in the most eastern part of Mali and several isolated places in western Niger.

• A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language Research output

  This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.

• Africa Descriptive Linguistics

  At LUCL we study almost all aspects of a wide range of African languages. From phonology to anthropological linguistics, from theoretical syntax to urban youth languages, we study it all.

• The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria Research output

  A synchronic description of the endangered Slovene dialect spoken in the Gailtal valley in Carinthia, Austria.

• Career prospects Linguistics (research) (MA)

• Takeovers and Value Creation: Comparative Perspectives News - 1 May 2019

  In an academic workshop at University of California, Davis School of Law on 26 April 2019 Jelle Nijland and Tim Verdoes presented the preliminary results of the research they conducted in cooperation with Thy Pham and Maaike Lyklama a Nijeholt. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate an in-depth comparative…

• Bank Insolvency: China and Europe compared News - 28 April 2017

  A joint global research project, “New Bank Insolvency Law for China and Europe”, which started in 2014, is nearing its completion. China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL, Beijing, China) and Leiden Law School’s Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law are finalizing an innovative joint research…

• Of marks and meaning : a palaeographic, semiotic-cognitive, and comparative analysis of the identity marks from Deir el-Medina Research output

  Kyra van der Moezel defended her thesis on 7 September 2016.