1,320 search results for “foreign policy” in the Public website
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Policy versus Practice. Language variation and change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch
On December 12th, Andreas Krogull succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Andreas on this great result.
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Sports: experiental expertise of (dis-)ability | Research Internship Policy in Practice
How do people experience ‘inclusion’ in sports? How can experiential expertise enhance policies in sport and inclusion? This research internship at The Mulier Institute enables a student to investigate these issues from a qualitative research perspective.
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Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy
In this article for Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the authors analyse the evolution and interplay of national policies and international diplomacy on cyber terrorism within and across the UNSC’s permanent five members and the UN process on cyber norms (GGE and OEWG).
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Technology integration in education: policy plans, teacher practices, and student outcomes
Despite the value of technology integration for educational equity and quality being emphasized by numerous studies, many gaps exist about how technology integration can be approached in policy plans, implemented in pedagogical practices, and embraced by teachers, students, and parents.
- Volume 1 (2006)
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infrastructures for the assessment of science, technology and innovation policy
The RISIS project aims at creating a distributed research infrastructure to support and advance science and innovation studies. This will give the field a strong scientific push forward, and at the same time, provide a radically improved evidence base for research and innovation policies, for research…
- China's Diplomacy
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Transitioning from Military Interventions to Long-Term Counter-Terrorism Policy
In December 2014, Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs with the Australian National University’s Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, commenced a research project to assess how (temporary) military interventions can best prepare…
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Forum Essays
Forum essays provide a framework for intellectual exchange and debate about the role of diplomacy around a particular theme. The essays are argumentative contributions and are shorter than research articles.
- US Diplomacy
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Ethnicity, Orthodoxy, and Policy in Medieval China: The Political Philosophy of Wang Tong (584?-617)
This research project focuses on the thoughts of ethnicity and political orthodoxy in Medieval China by investigating Wang Tong’s works.
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Chinese state policies on Buddhism between the 19th and 20th century
This research project focuses on the interaction of Buddhist institutions, Chinese central and local governments, and local gentry in the 'transforming temples into schools' movement.
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Utility Spots, Science Policy, Knowledge Transfer and the Politics of Proximity
How we think about and act on the usefulness of scientific research has epistemological and political implications: what knowledge consists of, how it comes about and to what ends. In this dissertation, I situate the usefulness of scientific research in concrete places for knowledge exchange. The exchange…
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China’s long march to national rejuvenation: toward a Neo-Imperial order in East Asia?
In tracing the deeper historical roots of what Xi Jinping contemporarily frames as a “Chinese dream” of “wealth and power,” the article discerns key actors, events, and organizing principles in a long process toward restoring China’s deemed rightful place in the regional system.
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The familiar other: Cultural representations and Netherlands-Iran relations, 1959-1979
In the study of West-East relations, difference often takes centre stage. This holds for both culturalist and postcolonial perspectives. By contrast, in my investigation of Netherlands-Iran political relations in the 1960s and 1970s, I will focus on the role of SIMILARITY. What lay at the root of the…
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Johan Christensen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.christensen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Leiden political scientists advise US diplomats
Leiden political scientists Yvonne Kleistra and Niels van Willigen have advised the United States State Department as to how to evaluate its foreign policy. Point of departure was a scientific model that Kleistra and Van Willigen have developed on the basis of their work for the Dutch Foreign Affairs…
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Guest Lecture: Mother of a Foreign Fighter
On Monday 28 March, Salina Ben Ali visited our University to tell her emotional story. She told about how her 19 year old son was recruited by IS, left for Syria and died there 'as a martyr'.
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Designing 'context-specific' regional innovation policy: a study on the role of regional government in six European regions
Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…
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The Steering Committee
Strategic direction of the Europe Hub lies with a Steering Committee, composed of members from several Leiden University faculties.
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About the programme
This programme focuses on the ideas and practices of resistance and change in Latin America and the Caribbean. You will be able to specialise in one of three areas: Culture and identity; State-society relations; and Literature, arts and media.
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Tracing Policy-relevant Information in Social Media: The Case of Twitter before and during the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper written by Vydra and Kantorowicz answers the research question ‘What policy-relevant information does Twitter contain?’ as well as the research question ‘How does this information change between a period of normalcy and a period of crisis?’
- City Diplomacy
- Parliamentary Diplomacy
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Co-benefits & Co-damages of environmental policies related to climate change and long-range transboundary air pollution
Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.
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Policy Note Insecurity in Burkina Faso – beyond conflict minerals: The complex links between artisanal gold mining and violence
Policy Note Insecurity in Burkina Faso – beyond conflict minerals: The complex links between artisanal gold mining and violence
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COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses
This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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Natter, Czaika & De Haas, Political party ideology and immigration policy reform
What drives the restrictiveness of immigration reforms? Political scientists Katharina Natter (Leiden University), Mathias Czaika (Danube University Krems) and Hein de Haas (University of Amsterdam) analysed immigration reforms in 21 Western immigration countries between 1970 and 2012. They found that…
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Asia and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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The Transatlantic Era (1989–2020) in Documents and Speeches
This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations. It provides a novel interpretive framework by proposing that the three decades between 1989 and 2020 represent a distinct ‘transatlantic era’.
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Reframing the Diplomat. Ernst van der Beugel and the Cold War Atlantic Community
In Reframing the Diplomat Albertine Bloemendal offers a unique window onto the unofficial dimension of Cold War transatlantic relations by analyzing the diplomatic role of the Dutch Atlanticist Ernst van der Beugel as a government official and as a private diplomat.
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Myanmar military junta representative attends ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat
On 29 January, the military administration in Myanmar sent a representative to the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat, marking the first time that a representative from Myanmar has attended a high-level ASEAN meeting in over two years.
- Volume 3 (2008)
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Towards a Sustainable World Trade Law? The Commercial Policy of the European Union after Opinion 2/15 CJEU
Dr. Gruni published an article on the impact on sustainable development in the EU Common Commercial Policy of recent Opinion 2/15 CJEU on the Global Trade and Customs Journal.
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
p.j.slaman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2789
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Bernard Steunenberg
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
b.steunenberg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9499
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Min Cho
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.j.cho@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503
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Katharina Natter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
k.natter@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6864
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Stefan Cetkovic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.cetkovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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A cabinet of curiosities for science policy
How does the government know whether science policy has the desired effect? According to Professor Barend van der Meulen, a variety of evidence about the effectiveness of science policy and proper gathering of this evidence are more important than a strict scientific method. Inaugural lecture 27 Ma…
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Trouw: 'Foreign fighters usually left their families behind in confusion'
Most families were utterly overwhelmed when they found out that their son or daughter had suddenly left for Syria, that is what Daan Weggemans, Marieke van der Zwan and Marieke Liem observe in their research on family members of Dutch jihadists.
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About the programme
The one-year International Relations Master's specialisations offer an attractive mix of theoretical knowledge with practical experience.
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domains: monitoring and analysis of European research and innovation policy
The main aim of the project is to collect and update on a regular basis bibliometric and patent indicators that can be used to underpin and inform analyses pursued at the European Commission (EC) to assess European and national scientific and technological performance.
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Inge van der Weijden
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.c.m.van.der.weijden@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6073
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Kate Kirk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
k.m.kirk@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 2889 4828
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Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
Faculty of Humanities
m.g.palacio.ludena@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2189
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Max van Lent
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.van.lent@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1571
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Barend Mons
Faculteit Geneeskunde
b.mons@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 9111
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Marinko Bobic
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.bobic@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9144